High-Performing Majority-Black and Open Enrollment Public Schools in the Bronx

Claremont / Claremont Village

Bronx Prep Charter School serves grades 6–12 at 3872 Third Avenue in the Claremont area. Part of Democracy Prep, its high-school program combines Advanced Placement courses, Regents and SAT preparation, arts, athletics, and speech and debate. Its Global Citizens program also offers learning through travel. Bronx Prep qualified through its Regents ELA and Algebra I results.

Icahn Charter School 1 serves kindergarten through eighth grade, with lower- and upper-school buildings on Brook Avenue in Claremont Village. Its model uses Core Knowledge—a curriculum designed to build students’ knowledge systematically across subjects and grades—within an extended school day and year. It qualified at both fifth and eighth grades.

Success Academy–Bronx 2 has its K–4 elementary campus at 450 St. Paul’s Place in Claremont Village. Its state reporting unit served K–8 in 2024–25, encompassing a broader pathway than the elementary campus alone. The network combines core academics with science, chess, arts, and athletics. It qualified through its fifth-grade results.

Co-op City

P.S. 178 Dr. Selman Waksman is a district elementary school at 850 Baychester Avenue in Co-op City, serving pre-K through fifth grade in the analysis year. Also known as the Magnet School of Multimedia Arts and Design, it highlights robotics, coding, science projects, 3D printing, and video production within its creative learning theme. It qualified through its fifth-grade ELA and mathematics results.

Capital Preparatory Bronx Charter School is located at 755 Co-op City Boulevard. It served grades 6–11 in 2024–25 and now offers grades 6–12. Its college-preparatory model centers social justice, with advisory, individualized student plans, extended learning time, athletics, and dual-enrollment opportunities. Seniors complete a social justice project addressing a community issue. It qualified through its Regents ELA and Algebra I results.

Equality Charter School has its grades 6–8 middle school in Co-op City, at 4140 Hutchinson River Parkway East. Its fall 2026 application places the K–3 elementary program and grades 9–12 high school in Williamsbridge, at 801 Bartholdi Street; the elementary program is expanding toward fifth grade. Equality emphasizes academic growth, social-emotional support, culturally responsive teaching, and restorative practices. It qualified through eighth-grade results and Regents ELA and Algebra I results. Current campus and grade information.

Concourse / Concourse Village

Success Academy–Bronx 3 has its K–4 elementary campus at 1000 Teller Avenue in Concourse Village. Its K–12 state reporting unit encompasses students beyond that campus. Success Academy’s model combines structured academic instruction with science, arts, chess, and athletics. It qualified through its fifth-grade results; its qualifying Regents results reflect a continuation pathway, rather than a separately established open-entry high-school option.

Edenwald / Baychester

Baychester Academy, P.S. 169 is a district school at 3500 Edson Avenue in the Edenwald–Baychester area, serving pre-K through fifth grade. Its published approach emphasizes academic, social, and emotional development, family partnerships, and using student performance information to guide teaching. It qualified through its fifth-grade results in both subjects.

P.S. 68, the Edward A. Fogel School for Critical Thinking and the Arts is located at 4011 Monticello Avenue in Edenwald. It serves elementary students through fifth grade, with pre-K enrollment also reported in 2024–25. Its school identity emphasizes critical thinking and the arts, while its mission encourages intellectual risk-taking, flexibility, and confidence. It qualified through its fifth-grade results.

Bronx Charter School for Better Learning 1 serves kindergarten through fifth grade at 3740 Baychester Avenue in Edenwald. Its distinctive approach, “Subordination of Teaching to Learning,” builds instruction around how children discover and develop understanding. The network also offers free after-school STEM and arts enrichment through its Better Learning Academy. BBL1 qualified through its fifth-grade results.

Morris Park / Pelham Parkway

Icahn Charter School 3 serves kindergarten through eighth grade at 1500 Pelham Parkway South, along the northern edge of Morris Park. It uses Core Knowledge to build content across grades, supplemented by other instructional materials and an extended day and year. The school also describes sharing curriculum information with families. It qualified at both fifth and eighth grades.

Icahn Charter School 4 is a separate K–8 school at the same Pelham Parkway South campus. Its model combines Core Knowledge with extended learning time and an emphasis on personal and community responsibility. It qualified at both fifth and eighth grades.

Icahn Charter School 5 also serves kindergarten through eighth grade at 1500 Pelham Parkway South. It follows the Icahn network’s Core Knowledge and extended-day/year approach, offering a continuous elementary-to-middle-school pathway. It qualified at both fifth and eighth grades.

Morrisania

Harriet Tubman Charter School serves kindergarten through eighth grade in Morrisania, with its published main address at 3565 Third Avenue. Its model emphasizes academic expectations, character development, eight core values, and relationships with families. The school describes a structured environment that supports academic and social-emotional growth. It qualified at both fifth and eighth grades.

South Bronx Classical Charter School III serves kindergarten through eighth grade at 3458 Third Avenue in Morrisania. Its classical model combines sequential academic instruction with Latin, debate, arts, and character education. The school has also documented flexible student groupings and learning specialists who provide additional academic support. It qualified through its fifth-grade results.

Mott Haven

South Bronx Classical Charter School II serves kindergarten through eighth grade, with its main campus at 333 East 135th Street in Mott Haven. NYC’s school directory also lists a building at 757 Concourse Village West in Concourse Village, so families should confirm the campus for their child’s grade. Its model includes Latin, debate, arts, character education, an extended day, and academic support. It qualified through its eighth-grade results. Campus information.

Success Academy–Bronx 1 has its K–4 elementary campus at 339 Morris Avenue in Mott Haven. Its state reporting unit served K–7 in 2024–25. The network’s elementary approach includes daily science, reading and writing, mathematics, chess, and the arts. It qualified through its fifth-grade results, which belong to the broader reporting unit rather than solely to the K–4 campus.

Unionport

Success Academy Unionport Middle School, identified in the dataset as Success Academy Charter School–NYC 12, is located at 2169 Blackrock Avenue in Unionport. It served fifth grade in 2024–25 and currently lists grades 5–7, with expansion planned. Its network model emphasizes preparation for advanced coursework alongside arts, chess, debate, and athletics. It qualified through its fifth-grade results. Families should confirm entry eligibility rather than assume a separate fifth-grade lottery.

Wakefield — with middle-school campuses in Allerton and Williamsbridge

Bronx Charter School for Excellence 3 serves kindergarten through eighth grade. Its K–4 campus is in Wakefield, at 3956 Carpenter Avenue, while its currently listed grades 5–8 campus is in Allerton, at 830 Mace Avenue. The school combines an extended day, preparation for challenging academics, enrichment, and high-school placement support. It qualified at both fifth and eighth grades.

Bronx Charter School for Excellence 4 served K–7 in 2024–25 and now offers K–8. Its elementary campus is in Wakefield, at 4300 Murdock Avenue, and its middle-school campus is in Williamsbridge, at 1160 East 213th Street. It shares the Excellence network’s extended-day model and emphasis on core academics and high-school preparation. It qualified through its fifth-grade results.

Williamsbridge

P.S. 21 Philip H. Sheridan is a district school serving kindergarten through fifth grade at 715 East 225th Street in Williamsbridge. It identifies itself as a community school and emphasizes a caring, collaborative learning environment. Its public materials provide fewer details about a distinctive instructional model, making classroom visits especially useful for interested families. It qualified through its fifth-grade results in both subjects.

Families considering Williamsbridge should also see Equality’s elementary and high-school programs under Co-op City, and Bronx Excellence 4’s middle-school program under Wakefield.

These profiles describe school models, rather than establish which features produced the test results. Families should pair this starting list with school visits, culture and climate data, teacher experiences, student attrition, and conversations with alumni.