Harlem Success Academy Charter Schools are free, public elementary schools founded on a simple premise: Every child can succeed.

Our students are admitted through a random lottery but from the moment our children enter the door, nothing else is left to chance.

We are a public school run like a private school. Harlem Success Scholars are taught by the best teachers from around the country, their progress is assessed every 8 weeks, and all children who need it are given targeted one-on-one tutoring by highly-trained tutors to ensure they progress at the highest of levels.

The Harlem Success Academy Charter School, which opened in August 2006 on 118th Street and Lenox Avenue, was the first of four Harlem Success Academies founded by Success Charter Network (SCN).  SCN opened three more public charter schools in 2008 and will be opening three more in 2010, for a total of seven schools in New York City.  Success Charter Network plans to open a total of 40 high-performing charter schools in New York City over the next ten years.