Through service, quality, innovation, and participation, to develop the skills, habits, attitudes, concepts, and knowledge that promotes the intellectual, social, emotional, physical, civic, moral, and vocational well being of all the members of the school community. The great goal of a school is to help make students smart and to help make them good.
Kids come first.
Translated into student language, the mission is, through working together, to make these the best years of our lives. The building is adjacent to, and has access to city parks besides it own playground. A front courtyard encompasses the reading gardens named in honor of its former principal. P.S.35 is a small elementary school serving the needs of a multicultural community whose population includes a mix of middle and low income families. P.S. 35 is organized in a traditional K-5 grouping, with two to three classes on each grade.