P.S. 031 Samuel F. Dupont

Both ELA (91.5%) and math (89.8%) proficiency run roughly 30 percentage points above the District 14 averages of about 62% and 59% — these are top-tier results for a zoned public school. The trajectory is the more striking story: ELA proficiency climbed from 62.1% in 2016 to 91.5% in 2025, and math from 68.8% to 89.8%, with steady gains through 2019, a notable jump by 2022, and continued strength since. Scores hold up across grade levels, with fifth-graders posting 95.1% ELA and fourth-graders hitting 95.7% in math — meaning the gains aren't concentrated in any one cohort.

The survey numbers paint a notably warm and orderly school: 96% parent satisfaction, 97% parent-teacher trust, 99% of teachers rating instruction quality highly, and 100% reporting collegial trust with peers. Teacher-reported safety sits at 97%, just above the district norm. The school recorded zero suspensions in each of the past three years — a meaningful signal of how discipline is handled. The one number that gives pause is the chronic absenteeism rate of 85.1%, which is high even as the overall attendance rate (94.1%) sits well above the district average of 89% — worth asking the school how they interpret and address it.

The student body is 44% White, 39% Hispanic, 7% Asian, and 7% Black, with 16% of students classified as having IEPs and an economic need index of 57. Greenpoint itself skews wealthier and Whiter than the school population — the Hispanic share here is notably higher than you'd predict from the immediate neighborhood census. That mismatch tends to reflect Greenpoint's layering: long-standing Latino families alongside newer arrivals, plus zoning lines that pull in some students from adjacent areas. About 60% of students come from white families, while nearly 40% come from Hispanic families — a real mix.

Greenpoint is one of Brooklyn's most economically transformed neighborhoods — a borough median household income around $126,000 and a poverty rate under 10%, but also a renter-dominated area where only about 18% of households own their homes and median home values sit well above $1.3 million. About 13% of households have children, and nearly 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. It's a neighborhood of young professionals, longtime Polish and Latino residents, and strollers — one where getting around without a car is part of daily life.

The school is most convenient from the Nassau Av (G) stop about a 5-minute walk away, with Greenpoint Av (G) about 7 minutes and Bedford Av (L) about 14 minutes on foot.