TOOKER AVENUE SCHOOL

Located at 855 TOOKER AVE, in WEST BABYLON, New York, TOOKER AVENUE SCHOOL is a tight-knit elementary-level community that educates 282 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within WEST BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so TOOKER AVENUE SCHOOL sits 36% smaller than that benchmark.

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

Looking at the student body, TOOKER AVENUE SCHOOL logs that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 37% White, 9% Black, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.3:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Suffolk County (around 39%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), TOOKER AVENUE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.6%, the actual is 59.7%, a residual of -4.8 points.

Around the school, census data for Suffolk County shows median household income runs about $130,686, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 TOOKER AVENUE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around TOOKER AVENUE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, TOOKER AVENUE SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 53.5%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 8%: 306 students in 2018 compared to 282 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 32% to 50% across the same window.

On the community side, the feed for TOOKER AVENUE SCHOOL typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.