As New York City parents debate proposals to increase diversity at public schools on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, one example of integration is Success Academy, a charter school that faced stiff opposition when it opened in fall of 2011. Success Academy Upper West, on West 84th Street, roughly reflects the racial makeup of the area. With 443 children in kindergarten through fourth grade, the school was among the top performers citywide on state tests last year, according to city data.

Tomorrow Success Academy will graduate its first class of seniors, all of whom compared offers from selective colleges before deciding where to enroll in the fall. With appreciation for what Success Academy has accomplished with its first graduating class, Chris Teare asked Ms. Moskowitz a few questions.

At the Success Academy Bronx 2 Middle School, teachers identified 13 students who needed special education this school year. But the city’s Education Department only approved help for one of them. Success Academy, the city’s largest charter school network, is now alleging discrimination by the Education Department.

Success Academy unveiled a new turf soccer field at its Harlem North Central school on Thursday. Formerly an expanse of cracking cement, the play yard also features two full-length basketball courts and a playground. Nearly 1.000 children from Success Academy and P.S. 175 Henry H. Garnet, which shares the building on West 134th Street, will regularly play and train there.

Ashley Wilson, a Kindergarten Teacher at Success Academy Harlem 3 was one of 17 winners of New York City’s Big Apple Award, a competitive prize that rewards “exceptional success” in instruction, impact on student learning, and overall contributions to school communities.

Success Academy Cobble Hill and Digital Arts and Cinema Technology High School collaborated on their first annual art parade this week. The event featured over 300 SA students marching while showing off wearable art. Four students from Digital Arts and Cinema Technology High School, which shares a building with SA Cobble Hill, filmed the art parade — the latest example of an ongoing collaboration between the co-located schools.

When New York’s first round of Common Core state test results came out in 2013, student results plummeted across all schools, district and charter. Achievement First’s co-CEO Dacia Toll says “Common Core was like an earthquake and I’m standing over here in the rubble of my charter network and I look up. And darn it if there isn’t this building standing, looking almost unharmed in the middle of this earthquake. Do you know who it was? Success Academies“.

Two Cobble Hill schools bonded through art and film. Success Academy Cobble Hill and the Digital Arts and Cinema Technology School share a campus. The high school students filmed SA Cobble Hill’s costume arts parade.

Last week, the city’s Panel for Education Policy approved seven charter school colocations, providing them space in public school buildings. That brings the total number of charter colocations okayed to 21 this year — double the average during the previous four years of the de Blasio administration. This increase is a welcome change, but the city could still be doing more to find room for charters.