It’s a success!
For the first time, Success Academy Charter has been named one of the Big Apple’s top 10 best public high schools, according to new rankings by US News & World Report.
The annual list, released this week, has the charter school rubbing shoulders with some of New York City’s highly selective educational institutions.
Ranked ninth, Success Academy High School of the Liberal Arts – Manhattan is believed to be the only school at the top of the list that doesn’t require specific criteria for admission, such as the Specialized High School Admissions Test.
The list, which is part of a wider ranking of roughly 18,000 of America’s best public high schools, doles out scores based on a range of benchmarks — including college readiness, graduation rates, assessment proficiency and underserved student performance.
Queens High School for the Sciences at York College in Jamaica topped the list for the New York City region.
The High School for Math, Science and Engineering at CCNY and Stuyvesant High School, both in Manhattan, trailed behind in second and third spots, respectively.
The others to make the list included Staten Island Technical High School, Bronx High School of Science, High School of American Studies at Lehman College, Staten Island Technical High School, Brooklyn Latin School and Brooklyn Technical High School.
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Townsend Harris High School in Flushing, Queens, rounded out the top 10.
The fresh rankings come just weeks after data revealed that students at Success Academy were far outpacing their city public school peers on state exams this year.
Pass rates for pupils at the charter network in grades 3-7 were nearly double those of their public school counterparts, the school’s figures showed.
The charter school system reported that 92.5% of its 9,280 students in those grades passed the 2025 English Language Arts exam, while 96.2% demonstrated proficiency in math.
By comparison, some 56.3% of public school students in grades 3-8 met the proficiency standards for ELA, while 56.9% passed math, the Department of Education said.
Success Academy enrolls roughly 22,000 students across 59 elementary, middle and high schools. The city’s Department of Education teaches about 1.1 million students at some 1,800 schools.
