Park Slope Kids Have Among City's Highest Vaccination Rates: Data

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — Just over three-quarters of public school students in Park Slope have been vaccinated against COVID-19, a rate that exceeds the citywide average, recently-released Department of Education data shows.

Across the neighborhood's 16 public schools 75.5 percent of students have gotten at least one vaccine dose, amounting to 7,231 students in total, according to DOE data showing the vaccination rate among eligible students at each of the city's nearly 1,500 schools.

That's much higher than the citywide average of 59.3 percent (and on par with some of the other highest-vaccinated districts), according to the data, which was released Friday and reflects vaccination rates as of Feb. 22.

While the vast majority of public school students in Park Slope have mostly been vaccinated against COVID-19, rates at local schools still range from over 90 percent to under one-half vaccinated.

The most-vaccinated Park Slope School is P.S. 321, an elementary school on the corner of Seventh Avenue and Second Street where 92.9 percent of the 1,221 students have gotten at least one vaccine dose, according to the city.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, P.S. 124 on Fourth Avenue and 14th Street is the neighborhood's least vaccinated school: only 48.4 percent of eligible kids at the Pre-K-through-5 school have gotten a vaccine dose, the data shows.

"New York City led the way ensuring every adult in our buildings is vaccinated, mandating vaccinations for students participating in high-risk activities, and hosting clinics in schools where over 50,000 students received life-saving vaccines," DOE spokesperson Nathaniel Styer said when the data was released on Friday.

"In the coming months, we are working with our partner health care agencies on an outreach campaign to encourage vaccination in the communities with the lowest rates."

Officials also announced Friday that New York City public school students could go mask-free outdoors starting this week.

See a breakdown of the vaccination rate data at Park Slope's public schools here: