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What's one thing BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
662
High
DISTRICT 496 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360372000121
BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
50 RAILROAD AVE, BABYLON, NY 11702 · (631) 893-7920 · Suffolk County
GRADES 07–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL662 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 59% of New York public high schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
8.9:1
75 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.3:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
107 students
DISTRICT 12% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 102 | 15% |
| Grade 8 | 112 | 17% |
| Grade 9 | 106 | 16% |
| Grade 10 | 116 | 18% |
| Grade 11 | 109 | 16% |
| Grade 12 | 110 | 17% |
| Ungraded | 7 | 1% |
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
85.1%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.7pp since 2023
Math
85.2%
NY avg 57.4% . -2.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 85 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 85.1% | 85.2% |
| 2023-24 | 84.3% | 87.6% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
71.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (71.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 662 | 16.2% | 71.3% |
| SEAFORD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SEAFORD | 650 | 14.6% | 71.7% |
| KINGS PARK HIGH SCHOOL KINGS PARK | 823 | 14.3% | 86.3% |
| WESTLAKE HIGH SCHOOL THORNWOOD | 566 | 18.7% | 76.3% |
| SOMERS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL LINCOLNDALE | 847 | 13.7% | 93.3% |
| MILLER PLACE HIGH SCHOOL MILLER PLACE | 764 | 20.0% | 86.7% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.3% | #322 of 1,135 | #30 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.2% | #87 of 1,109 ▲ 41 | #6 of 57 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 85.1% | #310 of 1,135 ▲ 84 | #32 of 56 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 662 | #383 of 1,216 | #48 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.9:1 | #129 of 1,058 | #5 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.9% | #663 of 1,070 | #42 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.2% | #1,120 of 1,167 | #49 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.8% | #269 of 743 | #18 of 45 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
662
-41 (-6%) vs 2020
-14% since 1990-91, when it was 772
Student : Teacher
8.9:1
was 9.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 662 | 74.8 | 8.9:1 | 16% (107) |
| 2023-24 | 690 | 69.3 | 10.0:1 | 20% (136) |
| 2022-23 | 703 | 80 | 8.8:1 | 21% (149) |
| 2020-21 | 703 | 71 | 9.9:1 | 19% (134) |
| 2017-18 | 786 | 79.4 | 9.9:1 | 14% (111) |
| 2015-16 | 778 | 69 | 11.3:1 | 16% (122) |
| 2010-11 | 842 | 65 | 12.9:1 | 11% (96) |
| 2000-01 | 915 | 73 | 12.5:1 | 6% (53) |
| 1990-91 | 772 | 59 | 13.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL serves students in BABYLON, New York, as a mid-sized high school. Its enrollment is 662 students, spread over grades 7 through 12.
BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT serves 1,489 students across 3 schools.
More than half of enrollment at BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is White: 75%. The remaining shares are 17% Hispanic, 3% Black, and 3% Asian. Suffolk County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school's share is higher. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 41%.
BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has 74.8 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.9:1. The gap from the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York is 2.2 students per teacher. At BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, 16% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The average for public schools in Suffolk County is 39%.
Among New York public high schools, BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL outscored 59%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
A school with BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 69.0%. BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL scores 71.3%, 2.2 points above that line.
For the population of Suffolk County, median household income comes to about $130,686, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Suffolk County counts 343 public schools with about 222,439 students.
A public school about 0.4 miles away, BABYLON MEMORIAL GRADE SCHOOL, is the closest to BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. On proficiency, BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is ahead of the 64.9% nearby average, ranking 2nd of 8.
Under the NCES locale system, BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is Suburb: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL had a net loss of 41 students, or 6%. The ratio of students to teachers went from 9.9:1 to 8.9:1 over the same years.
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Suffolk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,530,146
Census ACS
Median income
$130,686
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
343
222,439 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- BABYLON MEMORIAL GRADE SCHOOLElementary · 490 students
- BABYLON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 337 students
Other schools in BABYLON
- BABYLON MEMORIAL GRADE SCHOOLElementary · 490 students
- BABYLON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 337 students
Nearby schools
- BABYLON MEMORIAL GRADE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 490
- BABYLON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 337
- PAUL J BELLEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 463
- WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 1,228
- WEST ISLIP SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 1,163
- SOUTH BAY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 288
Frequently asked questions
About BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHow large is BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 662 students in grades 07-12.
Is BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 07-12.
How many teachers does BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL have?
BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL employs 75 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.9:1.
How diverse is BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 75% White, 17% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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