City school officials have withdrawn a controversial proposal to co-locate a charter school at IS 285 Meyer Levin School for the Performing Arts in East Flatbush after the school community and neighborhood groups joined forces to organize a grassroots campaign to oppose it.

“The DOE made the right decision. For co-locations to work, all of the stakeholders have to agree,” said UFT President Michael Mulgrew. “One school community can’t be asked to make all the sacrifices, whether that’s giving up smaller class sizes, or art or music rooms.”

Parents, educators, students, local politicians and community leaders pulled together to fight the co-location plan, saying it would have hurt the performing arts program Meyer Levin is known for and taken crucial space away from that program and from others. Under the proposal, the elementary grades of Uncommon Kings Collegiate Charter School would have occupied the third floor of the school building, now home to performance spaces; computer labs; a special education room; the not-for-profit Higher Levin, an after-school alternative to the streets; and East Flatbush Village, a community organization offering mentoring and sports.

“Today I saw how hard work and dedication can pay off,” drama teacher Daisy Rodriguez posted on Facebook. “Five long months filled with weekly strategy meetings, countless emails and texts, and tearful phone calls. It is possible for the good guy to win.”

Betty Zohar, the UFT’s parent and community liaison in Brooklyn, praised committed volunteers who organized rallies and marches and conducted letter-writing campaigns. When the decision to drop the plan was announced, Zohar said, there was “celebrating in the hallways.”

Tichard Chapman, a music teacher at the school and the founder of Higher Levin, said Zohar’s leadership was pivotal to their victory. “Betty gave us the energy and motivation to push on and kept us focused throughout this whole ordeal,” he said. “Betty was the source of our strength and inspiration. She came to all the meetings to encourage us, support us, get us angry when we were sad and celebrate the tiny wins when we had them.”

The school — named for Sgt. Meyer Levin, a World War II bombardier and pilot and the first American-Jewish hero of the war — provides training in dance, drama, chorus, theater production, instrumental band and steel pan orchestra. The arts program has become an integral part of the East Flatbush community.

“It was an arduous five months but worth every second because our students and this community deserve the very best and now we can get back to the task of ensuring we deliver exactly that,” Chapter Leader Rocco Romano said.

Effects of the co-location would have been “devastating to the young minds and psyches of the children of Meyer Levin” and denied them the “opportunity for success that we had,” said actor Reno Wilson, best known for television roles on “The Cosby Show” and “Mike & Molly.” “What I and the other alumni have in common is we all harken back to those years in Meyer Levin as that turning point in our lives that set us up for success.”