Success Academy Charter School - NYC 6

This school's proficiency results aren't included in the snapshot, so academic performance can't be benchmarked against the district averages of roughly 57% ELA and 56% math. What is clear is that the local charter landscape is unusually competitive: peer charters in District 11 — Icahn 4, Bronx Charter School for Excellence, Icahn 2 and 3 — all post scores in the 87–96 range, making this one of the stronger charter ecosystems in the borough. Families should ask the school directly for current proficiency numbers rather than relying on ranking lists.

Only one family survey response was recorded this year, so the available signal on parent satisfaction, trust, and day-to-day climate is effectively too thin to read. That means the usual indicators — how teachers feel about leadership, whether families feel heard, how discipline is handled — can't be characterized from the data. For a parent weighing this school, that gap is itself information: the school hasn't surfaced much parent voice, so visiting, talking to current families, and asking pointed questions about communication and culture will matter more than usual.

Because this is a charter with borough-wide lottery admissions, the student body doesn't mirror the surrounding neighborhood the way a zoned school would. Williamsbridge-Olinville itself is a working-class community with a median household income around $55,600, a poverty rate near 23%, and a homeownership rate of about 31% — modest incomes with real family investment in the area. Only about 14% of neighborhood households include children, so families with school-age kids are a minority here, and the school likely draws a broader cross-section of the Bronx into its classrooms.

Williamsbridge-Olinville is a working-class, predominantly renter neighborhood where roughly a quarter of households live below the poverty line and just under a third of homes are owner-occupied — modest means, but with a median home value near $518,000 among owners. About one in seven households includes children, and roughly 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, putting this among the more modestly educated but family-rooted stretches of the Bronx. The community is established and stable in feel, with a mix of long-term renters and owners who have stayed for decades.

The 2 and 5 at Gun Hill Road is about a three-minute walk, with Burke Avenue (2/5) about eight minutes and 219 Street (2/5) about eleven minutes on foot — a genuinely short commute by New York standards, especially for a charter that draws from across the borough.