Enrollment
288
Elementary
DISTRICT 310 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363054004103
SOUTH BAY SCHOOL
160 GREAT E NECK RD, WEST BABYLON, NY 11704 · (631) 376-7501 · Suffolk County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL288 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 60% of New York public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
74 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 | 42 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 23% |
| Grade 3 | 45 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 36 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (42) is 26% smaller than its 5th grade class (57).
Student demographics
61%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
65.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +16.0pp since 2023
Math
68.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.0% | 68.0% |
| 2023-24 | 49.0% | 62.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 SOUTH BAY SCHOOL
SOUTH BAY SCHOOL's state test result (60.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTH BAY SCHOOL this school | 288 | 25.7% | 60.5% |
| BEDFORD HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BEDFORD HILLS | 309 | 24.6% | 71.3% |
| EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LONG BEACH | 271 | 27.3% | 57.7% |
| FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL WEST BABYLON | 278 | 29.5% | 36.1% |
| WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOL SOUTH HEMPSTEAD | 286 | 22.4% | 73.9% |
| THEODORE ROOSEVELT SCHOOL OYSTER BAY | 308 | 23.7% | N/A |
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 SOUTH BAY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.5% | #730 of 2,335 | #44 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #786 of 2,342 ▲ 82 | #49 of 169 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #743 of 2,343 ▲ 188 | #42 of 169 ▲ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 288 | #2,059 of 2,585 | #178 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.3:1 | #547 of 2,338 | #50 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.7% | #688 of 2,388 | #60 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.7% | #2,078 of 2,534 | #125 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.8% | #520 of 606 | #46 of 57 |
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
288
0 (0%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 352
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
was 11.1:1
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 | 288 | 27.9 | 10.3:1 | 26% (74) |
| 2023-24 | 284 | 30.6 | 9.3:1 | 46% (130) |
| 2022-23 | 300 | 31.6 | 9.5:1 | 34% (101) |
| 2020-21 | 288 | 26 | 11.1:1 | 39% (112) |
| 2017-18 | 283 | 23 | 12.3:1 | 23% (64) |
| 2015-16 | 302 | 23 | 13.1:1 | 38% (114) |
| 2010-11 | 309 | 22 | 14.1:1 | 15% (45) |
| 2000-01 | 425 | 27 | 15.7:1 | 19% (80) |
| 1990-91 | 352 | 24 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOUTH BAY SCHOOL.
About SOUTH BAY SCHOOL
SOUTH BAY SCHOOL serves students in WEST BABYLON, New York, as a small elementary school. The school runs kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 288 students. That compares with an average of about 443 students for elementary schools in New York.
WEST BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT has 3,597 students in 7 schools, and SOUTH BAY SCHOOL is one of those schools.
Federal enrollment data show SOUTH BAY SCHOOL is 51% White. Other groups include 35% Hispanic, 8% Black, and 3% Asian. The county population is about 66% White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 61%.
With 27.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 10.3:1. Elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1, 2.5 more students per teacher than here. Roughly 26% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 39% average among public schools in Suffolk County.
Among New York public elementary schools, SOUTH BAY SCHOOL outscored 60%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
SOUTH BAY SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 60.5%, compared with a predicted 65.5%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
The county, Suffolk County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $130,686, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 40% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. The county has 343 public schools and about 222,439 students.
SOUTH BAY SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL, about 0.1 miles away. The five-mile area around SOUTH BAY SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts SOUTH BAY SCHOOL at 5th of 8.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
In 2020-21, SOUTH BAY SCHOOL enrolled 288; in 2024-25, 288.
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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 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
- TOOKER AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 282 students
- FOREST AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 278 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
- TOOKER AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 282 students
- FOREST AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 278 students
Nearby schools
- JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 348
- WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 1,228
- LINDENHURST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 1,868
- ALLEGHANY AVENUE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 319
- BABYLON MEMORIAL GRADE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 490
- DANIEL STREET SCHOOL1.2 mi · 495
Frequently asked questions
About SOUTH BAY SCHOOLHow large is SOUTH BAY SCHOOL?
SOUTH BAY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 288 students in grades KG-05.
Is SOUTH BAY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SOUTH BAY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does SOUTH BAY SCHOOL have?
SOUTH BAY SCHOOL employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at SOUTH BAY SCHOOL?
At SOUTH BAY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 51% White, 35% Hispanic, 8% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is SOUTH BAY SCHOOL public or private?
SOUTH BAY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by WEST BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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