PS 188 MICHAEL E BERDY

PS 188 MICHAEL E BERDY is a low-enrollment elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21. The school teaches 236 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 47% leaner than the state mean of about 443.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21 comprises 40 schools with combined enrollment of 33,610 students; PS 188 MICHAEL E BERDY is among them.

On the student-mix side, PS 188 MICHAEL E BERDY records that 52% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 33% Hispanic, 9% White, 5% Asian. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, The school reports having 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting PS 188 MICHAEL E BERDY tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 188 MICHAEL E BERDY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.5%, the actual is 31.5%, a residual of -7.9 points.

In the area at large, census data for Kings County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), PS 188 MICHAEL E BERDY is one campus in the mix.

PS 329 SURFSIDE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 188 MICHAEL E BERDY ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 47.3%.

PS 188 MICHAEL E BERDY operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 188 MICHAEL E BERDY has fell 46%, going from 438 students in 2018 to 236 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

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