FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL

FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL is a close-knit K-5 school in WEST BABYLON, New York, one of the schools within WEST BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school educates 278 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 37% below typical.

FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL is one of 7 schools operated by WEST BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that educates 3,597 students overall.

In terms of who attends, FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 41% Hispanic, 9% Black, 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.7:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Suffolk County (around 39%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 64.2%; actual is 36.1%, a gap of -28.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Suffolk County put the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Suffolk County runs 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), of which FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL is one.

TOOKER AVENUE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 54.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 310 (now 278). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 35% to 41%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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