PS 34 OLIVER H PERRY

PS 34 OLIVER H PERRY operates as a mid-sized primary school in BROOKLYN, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14. Current enrollment sits at 435 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 38 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14 (15,288 students total), PS 34 OLIVER H PERRY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, PS 34 OLIVER H PERRY records that 68% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 15% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 38%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 23% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PS 34 OLIVER H PERRY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.5%; this one delivers 83.8%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Kings County) shows that median household earnings sit near $80,263, 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 34 OLIVER H PERRY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PS 31 SAMUEL F DUPONT, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PS 34 OLIVER H PERRY ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 55.6%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 34 OLIVER H PERRY has decreased 10%, going from 482 students in 2018 to 435 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 75% to 68% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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