PS 34 JOHN HARVARD

PS 34 JOHN HARVARD is one of the middle-of-the-pack K-5 schools in QUEENS VILLAGE, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29, with 440 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #29 runs 46 schools in total, collectively educating 21,817 students. PS 34 JOHN HARVARD is one of those campuses.

Demographically, PS 34 JOHN HARVARD shows that the most-represented group is Black (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 23% Hispanic, 20% Asian, 5% Native American. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, PS 34 JOHN HARVARD sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.0%; this one delivers 51.4%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Queens County indicate median household income runs about $86,136, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. PS 34 JOHN HARVARD is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).

Nearest neighbor: PS/IS 295, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PS 34 JOHN HARVARD comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.5%.

PS 34 JOHN HARVARD operates from a city-core location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 24%: 576 students in 2018 compared to 440 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 70% to 48% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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