MARION G VEDDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MARION G VEDDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack primary school in NORTH BABYLON, New York, overseen by NORTH BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school teaches 409 students in grades pre-K through 5.

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

On the student-mix side, MARION G VEDDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 30% White, 18% Black, 10% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the income-and-resources front, MARION G VEDDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.

After controlling for student poverty, MARION G VEDDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 64.5%; MARION G VEDDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 37.3%, -27.2 points below that line.

Across the wider county, Suffolk County reports that the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Suffolk County runs 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), of which MARION G VEDDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

NORTH BABYLON HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MARION G VEDDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 14%: 359 students in 2018 compared to 409 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 38% to 30% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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