Get ready for more Success.
Success Academy Charter Schools is applying to the state to create 14 new charters in the city starting next summer, officials announced Tuesday.
Success founder Eva Moskowitz said the expansion is necessary because the 22 schools she now runs can’t keep up with demand.
The charter network received 14,485 applications for 2,870 open seats for the next school year.
“These families — representing more than a dozen neighborhoods — are desperate for great schools,” said Moskowitz. “Even with 14 more schools, we will not make a dent in the demand we are seeing.”
Success wants to open four new elementary schools in West Harlem, Lower Manhattan, the Lower East Side and southeast Queens beginning in August 2015 and another 10 in August 2016.
Each school would enroll between 150 and 200 students in kindergarten and first grade classes in its first year.
The new applications come as Success already has 10 new schools in the pipeline, including its first high school this fall after a highly- publicized clash with the de Blasio administration over the proposed locations.
The city and the charter network eventually agreed to house three schools in former Catholic school buildings.
Charters must apply to SUNY or the state Education Department to receive a license to operate in New York, but it is up to the de Blasio administration to find the space.
If the city can’t find room within public schools buildings, it has to pay for leases on private properties, according to a state law enacted earlier this year.