[6] According to the New York Post, Success Academy had 17,700 applicants for 3,288 available seats, which resulted in a wait list of more than 14,000 families for the 2018–2019 school year.

[9] By 2019, according to The Washington Post, the Success Academy network of 47 schools serving 17,000 students, is the "highest-performing and most criticized educational institution in New York", and perhaps in the United States.

[16] Hedge fund managers Joel Greenblatt and John Petry were founders who helped to recruit Moskowitz as CEO.

[17] John Paulson donated $8.5 million to Success Academy in July 2015 to help open middle schools in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

[20] In 2015, New York City issued a mandatory contract granting its Department of Education oversight over all pre-kindergarten providers.

[24] The State University of New York's Board of Trustees has voted to approve regulations that allow Success Academy to certify its own teachers.

[35][36] A 2015 article in The New York Times reported that discipline, social pressure, positive reinforcement, and suspension are applied to students, as teachers are rewarded for better behavior and performance.

[17] In May 2019, the U.S. Department of Education found Success Academy Charter School had released personally identifiable information about a student's discipline records to the press.

Given the public allegations of corrupt motivation, Success Academy attorneys that they had no choice but to respond with details of their own,[39] along the lines of objections they had provided PBS before the show aired.

[40] Getler concluded that the student's relatively small but important role on the show did not warrant exposure of his extensive record of misbehavior at that school, but chided the episode for not having pursued on-the-record sources for their more severe allegations.

[43] Harlem Success Academy Charter School 3 was awarded a National Blue Ribbon by the U.S. Department of Education in 2015.

[46] In June 2017, Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools awarded Success Academy with the 2017 Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools, an award recognizing the best academic outcomes in the nation for low-income students and students of color.