Success Academy Charter School - Upper West: SHSAT testers and specialized high school offers, 2022-2025
Charter schools · Manhattan · DBN 84M523
- 8th graders, 2025
- 140
- Sat the SHSAT
- 101
- Took the test
- 72%
- Offers
- 34
SHSAT 2026: registration October 6–30; the test is November 14–15 (School Day November 18, 9th grade November 21).
Success Academy Charter School - Upper West 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, 101 of the 140 eighth graders at Success Academy Charter School - Upper West who applied to high school sat the SHSAT: 72%, more than half the grade. Across the charter sector the rate was 40%, so this school sits 32 points above it. Citywide, among public middle schools that published both counts, 37% of eighth graders sat the test. It ranks 12th of 139 in the charter sector on that measure. With 140 eighth graders applying to high school, it has the largest eighth grade of the 160 schools listed in the charter sector.
34 students from the school received an offer to one of the eight testing specialized high schools, 34% of its testers. Across the city, 4,023 offers went to 25,933 testers that year, 15.5%. It is the 34th highest count of the 116 middle schools whose 2025 offer count was large enough to be published.
The number of testers went from 61 in 2022 admissions to 101 in 2025, up 40. The sharpest move came between 2024 and 2025, when it rose by 35. The eighth grade itself grew from 99 to 140 over the same years, so part of that movement is the size of the class, not the share sitting the test. Offers went from 22 in 2022 to 34 in 2025.
Within the charter sector, no school received more offers in 2025 admissions; this one accounts for 27% of the 124 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 | 99 | 61 | 62% | 22 | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2023 | 91 | 49 | 54% | 17 | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2024 | 94 | 66 | 70% | 27 | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2025 | 140 | 101 | 72% | 34 | 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 - Upper West when the charter sector’s schools are ordered by the share of eighth graders who sat the SHSAT in 2025 admissions.
- South Bronx Classical Charter School IV75% of 12 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Icahn Charter School 573% of 30 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Dream Charter School Mott Haven72% of 18 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Central Brooklyn Ascend Charter School72% of 86 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Bronx Charter School for Excellence 369% of 32 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Bronx Charter School for Excellence68% of 73 sat the test · 7 offers
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Success Academy Charter - Upper West 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 - Upper West, 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
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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 - Upper West, 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.
- How hard Success Academy Charter - Upper West 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.
Success Academy Charter - Upper West 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 84M523; 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.