Success Academy Charter School - Hell's Kitchen: SHSAT testers and specialized high school offers, 2026
Charter schools · Manhattan · DBN 84M170
- 8th graders, 2026
- 112
- Sat the SHSAT
- 87
- Took the test
- 78%
- Offers
- 36
In 2026 admissions, 87 of the 112 eighth graders at Success Academy Charter School - Hell's Kitchen who applied to high school sat the SHSAT: 78%, which means most of the grade took the test. Across the charter sector the rate was 41%, so this school sits 37 points above it. Citywide, among public middle schools that published both counts, 39% of eighth graders sat the test. It ranks 13th of 140 in the charter sector on that measure. Its eighth grade is the 5th largest of 167 in the charter sector, above the median of 44.
36 students from the school received an offer to one of the eight testing specialized high schools, 41% of its testers. Across the city, 4,023 offers went to 26,123 testers that year, 15.4%. It is the 24th highest count of the 111 middle schools whose 2026 offer count was large enough to be published.
2026 is the only year this school appears in the DOE’s file.
Within the charter sector, no school received more offers in 2026 admissions; this one accounts for 23% of the 157 published for the charter sector. The DOE’s file lists every charter school under district code 84, whatever its borough, so the comparison here is with other charter schools across the city, not with the neighborhood.
Year by year
| Admissions year | 8th graders | Sat the SHSAT | Took the test | Offers | Discovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | not listed | not listed | not listed | not listed | |
| 2023 | not listed | not listed | not listed | not listed | |
| 2024 | not listed | not listed | not listed | not listed | |
| 2025 | not listed | not listed | not listed | not listed | |
| 2026 | 112 | 87 | 78% | 36 | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| Charter schools, 2026 | 8,384 | 3,223 | 41% | at least 157 | |
| New York City, 2026 | 26,123 | 4,023 |
“2026 admissions” means students who sat the SHSAT as eighth graders in the 2025-26 school year and received offers for fall 2026, as in the DOE’s Fall 2026 SHSAT and Discovery Summary. “8th graders” counts the school’s eighth graders who applied to high school; “took the test” divides testers by that count when both are published. The district row adds the published counts of its schools, so its offers are a floor; the city row is the DOE’s own total. “Not listed” means the school is absent from that year’s file.
Charter schools with a similar share of testers
The schools just above and below Success Academy Charter - Hell's Kitchen when the charter sector’s schools are ordered by the share of eighth graders who sat the SHSAT in 2026 admissions.
- South Bronx Classical Charter School II81% of 31 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Pharos Academy Charter School80% of 10 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Icahn Charter School 380% of 40 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Leaders in Our Neighborhood Charter School76% of 21 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Bronx Charter School for Excellence 476% of 41 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- South Bronx Classical Charter School III76% of 49 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
What to do with these numbers
Your child is in 8th grade now
Registration closes October 30. Test day: November 18.
November 18 is the SHSAT School Day; the weekend sittings are November 14/15 and November 21. Whatever the count at Success Academy Charter - Hell's Kitchen, the decision to sit the test is yours, and a scored official practice test tells you more about your own child than any school figure.
- How to register for the SHSAT, step by step
- Score an official SHSAT practice test, free
- Book an SHSAT session
Dates read on schools.nyc.gov on October 3, 2026.
Your child is in 6th or 7th grade
A 7th grader sits the SHSAT in fall 2027; a 6th grader, in fall 2028.
The test comes in the fall of 8th grade, so there is no deadline yet, and that is the point: starting now leaves time to work on reading and math at a steady pace instead of in the last weeks. The counts above show what happened at Success Academy Charter - Hell's Kitchen, not where your child stands. We start with a scored official practice test, which does.
Your child is in 5th grade
Middle school applications: October 14 to December 11.
Start with how many families applied for each seat last year: the DOE publishes it program by program. The middle school you choose is also where the SHSAT years happen, so ask the schools on your list how many of their students sit the test and how they prepare them.
- How hard Success Academy Charter - Hell's Kitchen is to get into
- SHSAT preparation: what it involves and when to start
Dates for fall 2027 entry read on schools.nyc.gov on October 3, 2026.
Figures from Specialized High Schools Admissions Tests Results (school counts) and Specialized High Schools Admissions Overall Summary (city totals), New York City Department of Education, as listed for DBN 84M170; 2026 figures from the DOE’s Fall 2026 SHSAT and Discovery Summary on InfoHub, not yet on NYC Open Data. Rebuilt 2026-10-04. Method and caveats are set out on the index page. Back to all 735 middle schools.