Enrollment
278
Elementary
DISTRICT 310 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363054004100
FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL
200 FOREST AVE, WEST BABYLON, NY 11704 · (631) 376-7301 · Suffolk County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL278 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 13% of New York public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
29%
82 students
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 50 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 45 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 44 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 46 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 9% larger than its 5th grade class (46).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within WEST 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
37.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
48.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.0% | 48.0% |
| 2023-24 | 28.0% | 37.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
36.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-28.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 64% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL
FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL's state test result (36.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL this school | 278 | 29.5% | 36.1% |
| TOOKER AVENUE SCHOOL WEST BABYLON | 282 | 28.4% | 59.7% |
| SOUTH BAY SCHOOL WEST BABYLON | 288 | 25.7% | 60.5% |
| MUSCOTA NEW YORK | 290 | 34.5% | 75.6% |
| CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EAST ROCKAWAY | 239 | 31.8% | 56.3% |
| WESTHAMPTON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WESTHAMPTON BEACH | 298 | 27.2% | 57.8% |
Matched among New York elementary 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 FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.1% | #1,784 of 2,335 | #136 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #1,553 of 2,342 ▲ 248 | #111 of 169 ▲ 26 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #1,936 of 2,343 ▼ 59 | #142 of 169 ▼ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 278 | #2,114 of 2,585 | #184 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.7:1 | #1,132 of 2,338 | #97 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.7% | #576 of 2,388 | #45 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 29.5% | #1,984 of 2,534 | #112 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.3% | #1,127 of 1,757 | #69 of 137 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
278
+7 (+3%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 328
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 278 | 23.8 | 11.7:1 | 29% (82) |
| 2023-24 | 273 | 26.1 | 10.5:1 | 49% (135) |
| 2022-23 | 271 | 28.2 | 9.6:1 | 39% (107) |
| 2020-21 | 271 | 23 | 11.8:1 | 39% (106) |
| 2017-18 | 310 | 23 | 13.5:1 | 31% (96) |
| 2015-16 | 311 | 25 | 12.4:1 | 43% (133) |
| 2010-11 | 369 | 34 | 10.8:1 | 37% (135) |
| 2000-01 | 421 | 26 | 16.2:1 | 31% (132) |
| 1990-91 | 328 | 27 | 12.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL.
About FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL
In WEST BABYLON, New York, FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL is a small elementary school. Classes run from pre-K through 5, and the school has 278 students. Against the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York, enrollment here is 37% lower.
In WEST BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, 7 schools enroll a combined 3,597 students.
Enrollment at FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL is mixed, with White students the largest group at 44%. Beyond that, enrollment is 41% Hispanic, 9% Black, 4% Asian, and 2% multiracial. In Suffolk County overall, about 66% of residents are White. By the diversity index, FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL comes in at 63%.
Dividing enrollment by its 23.8 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 11.7:1. Among elementary schools in New York, the typical ratio is 12.8:1. Eligible students account for 29% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program. That is lower than the 39% average for public schools in Suffolk County.
FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL is graded D by allk12, scoring above 13% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
A school in New York with FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 64.2%. FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL scores 36.1%.
In Suffolk County (population about 1,530,146), median household income is about $130,686, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 40%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. A total of 343 public schools operate in Suffolk County, serving about 222,439 students.
TOOKER AVENUE SCHOOL is the public school closest to FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 54.3%; FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL's is 36.1%, ranking 9th of 9.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 278 was 3% higher than in 2020-21, when it was 271.
The FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL community page is open for posts about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 WEST BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,228 students
- WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 817 students
- SANTAPOGUE SCHOOLElementary · 356 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOLElementary · 348 students
- SOUTH BAY SCHOOLElementary · 288 students
- TOOKER AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 282 students
Other schools in WEST BABYLON
- WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,228 students
- WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 817 students
- SANTAPOGUE SCHOOLElementary · 356 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOLElementary · 348 students
- SOUTH BAY SCHOOLElementary · 288 students
- TOOKER AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 282 students
Other Forest Avenue schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Forest Avenue. FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- Forest Avenue SchoolMiddletown, RI · 304 students
- Forest Avenue SchoolVERONA, NJ · 230 students
- Forest Avenue SchoolGLEN RIDGE, NJ · 127 students
Nearby schools
- TOOKER AVENUE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 282
- WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 817
- SANTAPOGUE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 356
- BELMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 375
- DANIEL STREET SCHOOL1.2 mi · 495
- WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 1,228
Frequently asked questions
About FOREST AVENUE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL?
FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 278 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL serve?
FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL have?
FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.7:1.
How diverse is FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL?
FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL reports a student body of 44% White, 41% Hispanic, 9% Black, 4% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL public or private?
FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by WEST BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.