High Demand For Seats At Success Academy

The parents of more than 260 local children—and more than 950 in total—have applied for the 190 available seats at Success Academy Cobble Hill, according to figures sent out earlier this week.

These figures challenge previous reports that the school is unwelcome in the neighborhood.

The numbers released arrive just a month after , legal advocates and other supporters from the community held a press conference outside of , between Court and Smith Streets, to announce their intention to sue founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools Eva Moskowitz, Brooklyn Success Academy III Trustees and the DOE over the alleged unlawful authorization of the charter school.

But that did not deter other local families from applying.

"Success Academy offers the promise of my son receiving a high-quality, enriching education,” Liz Williams, a Cobble Hill parent of a 4-year-old and a 9-month-old, said in a statement.  “All parents in my neighborhood want their children to attend a school that is both integrated in the local community and academically challenging. I could not be more excited about the opportunity Success Academy has to offer.”

Success Academy’s newest sites in the Upper West Side, Williamsburg and Cobble Hill are the first to serve students in more mixed, middle-class neighborhoods. Nearly all previous charter schools are located in the city’s neediest, low-income neighborhoods.

The Cobble Hill school will share space at the Baltic Street complex.