WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, a roomy intermediate school in WEST BABYLON, New York, overseen by WEST BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructs 817 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 54% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

WEST BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,597 students. WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 35% Hispanic, 12% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 25% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.

After controlling for student poverty, WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 59.4%.

In the surrounding community, Suffolk County reports that the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 56.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 13%: 938 students in 2018 compared to 817 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 64% to 47% across the same window.

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