PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO

PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO is a mid-tier K-5 school in BROOKLYN, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14. The school enrolls 636 students in grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 44% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #14 runs 38 schools in total, collectively educating 15,288 students. PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 60%. The remainder breaks down as 26% White, 6% multiracial, 5% Black, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO has 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 59% of students at PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Kings County's rate of about 79%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.4%, the actual is 50.4%, a residual of -3.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Kings County shows median household earnings sit near $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO is one.

Nearest neighbor: SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-WILLIAMSBURG, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 59.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. PS 84 JOSE DE DIEGO's enrollment has shrank 20% since 2018, when it stood at 795 (now 636).

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