BELMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BELMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a close-knit primary school in NORTH BABYLON, New York, operated by NORTH BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 375 students spanning grades K through 5.

Across the 7 schools in NORTH BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (4,603 students total), BELMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, BELMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 25% White, 19% Black, 6% multiracial, 6% Asian. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Suffolk County (around 39%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BELMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.6%; this one delivers 37.4%.

Around the school, census data for Suffolk County shows median household income runs about $130,686, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Suffolk County runs 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), of which BELMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BELMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BELMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 43.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BELMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 12%, going from 427 students in 2018 to 375 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 41% to 25%. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.

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