PS 329 SURFSIDE

PS 329 SURFSIDE is one of the small elementary campuss in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21, with 279 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 37% leaner than the state mean of about 443.

Across the 40 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21 (33,610 students total), PS 329 SURFSIDE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, PS 329 SURFSIDE reports that the largest single group is Black, at 58% of enrollment. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 4% Native American, 3% Asian. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.3:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 95% of students at PS 329 SURFSIDE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Kings County's rate of about 79%.

With demographic context factored in, PS 329 SURFSIDE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.2%; this one delivers 25.2%.

In the broader community, Kings County reports that median household earnings sit near $80,263, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which PS 329 SURFSIDE is one.

PS 288 SHIRLEY TANYHILL (THE) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PS 329 SURFSIDE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 329 SURFSIDE at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 48.2%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. PS 329 SURFSIDE's enrollment has edged down 34% since 2018, when it stood at 420 (now 279). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

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