PS 134 HENRIETTA SZOLD

Located at 293 E BROADWAY, in NEW YORK, New York, PS 134 HENRIETTA SZOLD is a minimally staffed primary school that hosts 164 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 1. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PS 134 HENRIETTA SZOLD sits 63% smaller than that benchmark.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 1 comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 9,363 students; PS 134 HENRIETTA SZOLD is among them.

Looking at the student body, PS 134 HENRIETTA SZOLD records that 59% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest reads as 31% Black, 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the resource side, The school lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against New York County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, PS 134 HENRIETTA SZOLD sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 38.7%; actual is 19.3%, a gap of -19.4 points.

Across the wider county, New York County reports that median household earnings sit near $103,931, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PS 134 HENRIETTA SZOLD is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).

The closest other public school is UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PS 134 HENRIETTA SZOLD comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.2%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 134 HENRIETTA SZOLD has edged down 44%, going from 293 students in 2018 to 164 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share rose from 22% to 31%.

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