WHO WE ARE

All kids can learn at the highest level. Together, let’s make that happen.

We share what we've learned and partner with you to find solutions.

WHO WE ARE

All kids can learn at the highest level. Together, let's make it happen.

We share what we've learned and partner with you to find solutions.

Our Story

Who we are hero

Success Academy accelerates student success

Success Academy Schools

Success Academy’s 57 schools are our lab sites of ongoing improvement. We host tours and communities of practice to observe, learn, and grow.

Success Academy Schools

Success Academy’s 57 schools are our lab sites of ongoing improvement. We host tours and communities of practice to observe, learn, and grow.

SA Learning Institute Library

Our digital library provides free access to curriculum, planning, and training resources developed and refined in thousands of Success classrooms.

SA Learning Institute Library

Our digital library provides free access to curriculum, planning, and training resources developed and refined in thousands of Success classrooms.

SA Education Incubator at the Robertson Center

Co-located with a K-8 Success Academy lab school, The Robertson Center hosts training and workshops that eliminate the divide between professional development and classroom practice.

SA Education Incubator at the Robertson Center

Co-located with a K-8 Success Academy lab school, The Robertson Center hosts training and workshops that eliminate the divide between professional development and classroom practice.

We started with one school and an unwavering belief in the power of children.

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2024
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Success Academy Harlem 1, Success Academy’s first school, opens in Harlem.

The school design embraces a whole-child approach with immersion in literature, conceptual math, inquiry-based, daily science, project-based learning, arts, chess, blocks play, and frequent field trips.

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Success Academy Performs in Top 1% of New York State

With four schools in Harlem and the Bronx, SA Harlem 1 students take the state tests for the first time: every child passes math, placing SA in the top 1% of 3,500 testing schools in NYS.

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Success Academy Gains National Attention with Common Core Exams

School leaders from around the country reach out to SA learn from our schools, now 22 in total, after SA students maintain high proficiency on the more rigorous Common Core tests, in contrast with dramatic drops in other public schools.

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In June, Success Academy shares literacy curriculum

SA provides free access to its elementary school literacy curriculum, subsequently sharing middle school literacy and history, project-based learning, and science and math units.

In November, The Robertson Center Opens to facilitate sharing

The Robertson Center opens to support educators and parents with in-person and online programs designed to help them advance rich, holistic learning for K-12 children.

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Success Academy Education Incubator Launches

Bringing together Success Academy insights in one entity, SA integrates events and training, access to curriculum and tools, and school-embedded learning.

Our Impact

Success Academy is demonstrating that excellence at scale in possible.

20K
Students Served

We serve more than 20,000 students in 50+ schools, most of whom are Black and Hispanic. Our students achieve proficiency at double and triple the rate of their district peers.

#1
In Student Success

Success students lead the nation in math learning at scale, with students gaining an additional 206 days of learning each year compared to peers.

100%
College Acceptance

100% of Success’s graduating seniors have been accepted to four-year colleges, with 69% accepted to a selective college.

Who we are

The Education Incubator has supported more than 100,000 educators across the country

With free curriculum and resources, programs, school-embedded communities of practice, and partnerships.

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"The professional development at Success Academy is incredibly high quality and practical. The educators are always transparent about why they are doing things in a certain way. There is always so much to learn." 

 

Nikki Rafferty, Leadership Coach at University of Notre Dame, A.C.E. Principals Academy