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Enrollment
817
Middle
DISTRICT 514 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363054004105
WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
200 OLD FARMINGDALE RD, WEST BABYLON, NY 11704 · (631) 376-7204 · Suffolk County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL817 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 51% of New York public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
65 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
204 students
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 271 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 279 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 267 | 33% |
Student demographics
64%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
WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL→WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
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
55.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +15.0pp since 2023
Math
74.9%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.0% | 74.9% |
| 2023-24 | 40.0% | 72.3% |
% 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
59.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% 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 WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (59.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 817 | 25.0% | 59.4% |
| CORNWALL MIDDLE SCHOOL CORNWALL | 905 | 22.8% | 71.3% |
| NYACK MIDDLE SCHOOL NYACK | 644 | 29.3% | 58.0% |
| JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL PORT JEFFERSON STA | 814 | 31.8% | 47.4% |
| MAHOPAC MIDDLE SCHOOL MAHOPAC | 902 | 22.5% | 64.5% |
| LONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL LONG BEACH | 664 | 26.4% | 62.5% |
Matched among New York middle 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 WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.4% | #268 of 766 | #24 of 66 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.9% | #234 of 768 ▲ 14 | #29 of 66 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #275 of 768 ▲ 186 | #20 of 66 ▲ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 817 | #151 of 796 | #24 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #591 of 683 | #60 of 66 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.6% | #141 of 688 | #11 of 66 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.0% | #665 of 773 | #44 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.9% | #257 of 524 | #33 of 59 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
817
-49 (-6%) vs 2020
-9% since 1990-91, when it was 897
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 10.8:1
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 | 817 | 65.1 | 12.6:1 | 25% (204) |
| 2023-24 | 808 | 73.4 | 11.0:1 | 46% (371) |
| 2022-23 | 804 | 73.7 | 10.9:1 | 36% (291) |
| 2020-21 | 866 | 80 | 10.8:1 | 42% (363) |
| 2017-18 | 938 | 80.6 | 11.6:1 | 24% (222) |
| 2015-16 | 968 | 83 | 11.7:1 | 38% (364) |
| 2010-11 | 1,035 | 97 | 10.7:1 | 24% (249) |
| 2000-01 | 1,162 | 77 | 15.1:1 | 12% (140) |
| 1990-91 | 897 | 76 | 11.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
In WEST BABYLON, New York, part of Suffolk County, WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a middle-grades school. It enrolls 817 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are 6 through 8. The school is 54% bigger than the average for middle schools in New York.
WEST BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which runs WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, has 7 schools and 3,597 students.
The largest racial or ethnic group at WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is White, with 47% of students. Other groups include 35% Hispanic, 12% Black, and 3% Asian. The county population is about 66% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL scores 64%.
WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL has a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.6:1, with 65.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York, this school's ratio is higher. The school has 25% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 39% for public schools in Suffolk County.
On the allk12 Grade, WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL lands at B-, ahead of 51% of New York public middle schools.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 65.8% at WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 59.4%.
In Suffolk County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $130,686 a year, roughly 40% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Public schools in Suffolk County number 343, with about 222,439 students.
WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.6 miles from WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 6th of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 59.4% against a local average of 56.2%.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell from 866 to 817, a 6% drop. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 10.8:1 to 12.6:1.
The discussion board for WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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
- SANTAPOGUE SCHOOLElementary · 356 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOLElementary · 348 students
- SOUTH BAY SCHOOLElementary · 288 students
- TOOKER AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 282 students
- FOREST AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 278 students
Other schools in WEST BABYLON
- WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,228 students
- SANTAPOGUE SCHOOLElementary · 356 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOLElementary · 348 students
- SOUTH BAY SCHOOLElementary · 288 students
- TOOKER AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 282 students
- FOREST AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 278 students
Nearby schools
- WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 1,228
- FOREST AVENUE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 278
- TOOKER AVENUE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 282
- BABYLON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 337
- DANIEL STREET SCHOOL1.1 mi · 495
- LINDENHURST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 1,868
Frequently asked questions
About WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 817 students in grades 06-08.
Is WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.6:1 students per teacher at WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
How diverse is WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 47% White, 35% Hispanic, 12% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL in?
WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is part of WEST BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.