Success Academy Charter School - Union Square: SHSAT testers and specialized high school offers, 2022-2025

Charter schools · Manhattan · DBN 84M174

8th graders, 2025: 84
Sat the SHSAT: 51
Took the test: 61%
Offers: 14

SHSAT 2026: registration October 6–30; the test is November 14–15 (School Day November 18, 9th grade November 21).

Success Academy Charter School - Union Square does not appear in the DOE's 2026 file. Its most recent figures are from 2025 admissions, which is what this page leads with. In 2025 admissions, 51 of the 84 eighth graders at Success Academy Charter School - Union Square who applied to high school sat the SHSAT: 61%, more than half the grade. Across the charter sector the rate was 40%, so this school sits 21 points above it. Citywide, among public middle schools that published both counts, 37% of eighth graders sat the test. It ranks 25th of 139 in the charter sector on that measure. Its eighth grade is the 27th largest of 160 in the charter sector, above the median of 48.

14 students from the school received an offer to one of the eight testing specialized high schools, 27% of its testers. Across the city, 4,023 offers went to 25,933 testers that year, 15.5%. It ranks 62nd of the 116 middle schools whose 2025 offer count was large enough to be published.

The number of testers ended close to where it began, 50 in 2022 admissions and 51 in 2025, but not in a straight line: it fell by 13 between 2024 and 2025. Offers went from 16 in 2022 to 14 in 2025, with a high of 26 in 2023.

In the charter sector, the most offers in 2025 admissions went to students from Success Academy Charter School - Upper West (34), out of 124 published for the charter sector as a whole. 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.

The DOE has listed this school under other names: “Success Academy Union Square (Manhattan 1)” (2022, 2023). The figures above follow the school code, 84M174, which did not change.

Year by year

SHSAT testers and specialized high school offers at Success Academy Charter School - Union Square by admissions year, from the New York City Department of Education.
Admissions year	8th graders	Sat the SHSAT	Took the test	Offers	Discovery
2022	82	50	61%	16	5 or fewer (not published)
2023	66	57	86%	26	5 or fewer (not published)
2024	78	64	82%	18	5 or fewer (not published)
2025	84	51	61%	14	5 or fewer (not published)
2026	not listed	not listed		not listed	not listed
Charter schools, 2025	8,641	3,254	40%	at least 124
New York City, 2025		25,933		4,023

“2025 admissions” means students who sat the SHSAT as eighth graders in the 2024-25 school year and received offers for fall 2025, as in the DOE’s Fall 2025 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 - Union Square when the charter sector’s schools are ordered by the share of eighth graders who sat the SHSAT in 2025 admissions.

Success Academy Charter School - Bronx 363% of 104 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
Uncommon Brownsville North Charter School NYC62% of 34 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
KIPP Infinity Charter School61% of 36 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
Brooklyn Prospect Charter School 15.260% of 103 sat the test · 24 offers
Legacy College Preparatory59% of 37 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
Icahn Charter School 659% of 32 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)

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Success Academy Charter - Union Square is not ranked for 2026 admissions: the DOE did not publish enough of its counts.

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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 - Union Square, 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.

Dates read on schools.nyc.gov on October 19, 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 - Union Square, not where your child stands. We start with a scored official practice test, which does.

Your child is in 5th grade

Middle school applications are open until 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.

Dates for fall 2027 entry read on schools.nyc.gov on October 3, 2026.

Success Academy Charter - Union Square is a school figure. Your child needs a score.

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 84M174; 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.