Success Academy Charter students far outpaced their Big Apple public school peers on state exams this year, according to data released Thursday.
Pass rates for pupils at the charter network in grades 3-7 were nearly double those of their public school counterparts, the figures from Success Academy show.
The charter school system boasted that 92.5% of its 9,280 students in those grades passed the 2025 English Language Arts exam while 96.2% proved they were proficient in math.
“We believe, and have proven, that when children have access to excellent schools, they achieve excellence,” Success Academy founder and CEO Eva Moskowitz said in a statement.
“It is an absolute tragedy that so many are prevented from accessing the kind of school that would allow them to fulfill their potential.”
Success Academy saw its students’ ELA pass rate jump more than 10% compared to the previous year, while a modest 1.2% bump was recorded in math, according to its data.
By comparison, students in the nation’s largest public school district — while also notching better scores than last year — were still largely missing the mark.
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 this week.
Success Academy also pointed out that its black and Hispanic students excelled by far greater margins than pupils in those racial and ethnic groups at DOE schools.
Black students in the charter system had a 95.5% pass rate in math, compared to just 43% in public schools. Hispanic students at Success Academy secured a 96.8% proficiency rate, as DOE students in the same ethnic group garnered 43.1%.
Black and Hispanic students also hit the right mark on the ELA exam, at 91.8% and 93.2% proficiency rates, respectively, while those who made the grade in DOE schools were at only 47% and 43.5%, the figures show.
While the state tests are typically given to grades 3-8, Success Academy’s eighth graders took the regents exams for ELA and Algebra instead.
Success Academy enrolls about 22,000 students across 59 elementary, middle and high schools while the DOE provides instruction to roughly 1.1 million students at some 1,800 schools.
Success Academy has long fought for more space in DOE buildings while battling the influential United Federation of Teachers union, which along with state leaders, have resisted lifting caps on the number of charter schools that can open in the city.
“Overall the charter schools are doing well. We congratulate them,” Bronx state Sen. Luis Sepulveda told The Post. “I support the charter schools and traditional public schools.”
Mayor Eric Adams and public school officials earlier this week hailed the latest test DOE scores because more public school students passed the ELA and math exams than the year prior.
“I also applaud [DOE] Chancellor Melissa Ramos and Michael Mulgrew of the UFT because the test score results that came out a few days ago are moving in the right direction for the traditional public schools,” Sepulveda said.
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