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Enrollment
1,228
High
DISTRICT 514 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363054004106
WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
500 GREAT E NECK RD, WEST BABYLON, NY 11704 · (631) 376-7115 · Suffolk County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,228 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 58% of New York public high 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
88 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
29%
350 students
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 280 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 281 | 23% |
| Grade 11 | 324 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 329 | 27% |
| Ungraded | 14 | 1% |
Student demographics
65%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
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
85.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
43.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -19.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 85 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 19 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 85.0% | 43.0% |
| 2023-24 | 86.0% | 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
68.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (68.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,228 | 28.5% | 68.5% |
| COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL PORT JEFFERSON STA | 1,160 | 27.9% | 76.5% |
| LONG BEACH HIGH SCHOOL LONG BEACH | 1,253 | 31.8% | 72.5% |
| NYACK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL NYACK | 945 | 27.5% | 64.3% |
| WASHINGTONVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL WASHINGTONVILLE | 1,308 | 35.9% | 69.7% |
| VALLEY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL MONTGOMERY | 1,385 | 36.2% | 78.3% |
Matched among New York high 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 SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.5% | #380 of 1,135 | #38 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #705 of 1,109 ▼ 216 | #45 of 57 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 85.0% | #329 of 1,135 ▲ 32 | #35 of 56 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,228 | #166 of 1,216 | #27 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #934 of 1,058 | #52 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.7% | #181 of 1,070 | #10 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 28.5% | #1,001 of 1,167 | #29 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.4% | #713 of 743 | #42 of 45 |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,228
-11 (-1%) vs 2020
+7% since 1990-91, when it was 1,147
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 1,228 | 87.5 | 14.0:1 | 29% (350) |
| 2023-24 | 1,255 | 97.6 | 12.8:1 | 46% (575) |
| 2022-23 | 1,247 | 107.6 | 11.6:1 | 39% (481) |
| 2020-21 | 1,239 | 100 | 12.4:1 | 41% (508) |
| 2017-18 | 1,246 | 102 | 12.2:1 | 25% (311) |
| 2015-16 | 1,322 | 104 | 12.7:1 | 38% (498) |
| 2010-11 | 1,487 | 117 | 12.7:1 | 25% (370) |
| 2000-01 | 1,304 | 85 | 15.3:1 | 12% (159) |
| 1990-91 | 1,147 | 93 | 12.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of the public schools in WEST BABYLON, New York. It is a high-enrollment high school. It reports enrollment of 1,228 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts enrollment 84% larger than the 668-student average for high schools in New York.
WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one school in WEST BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a system of 7 schools with 3,597 students.
The student body at WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has no majority group. White students lead at 44%. Enrollment also includes 38% Hispanic, 12% Black, 4% Asian, and 3% multiracial. The school's White share is 22 points below the 66% share among Suffolk County residents. A diversity index of 65% means there is a 65% chance two randomly chosen students at WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL are from different groups.
For every teacher at WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, there are about 14.0 students; the school has 87.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, high schools in New York average 11.0:1. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 29%. Public schools in Suffolk County average 39%.
WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 58% of New York public high schools.
The model predicts 64.5% for a school in New York with WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share. WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL posts 68.5%.
Looking at the county, Suffolk County, 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.
WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest public school to WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.6 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is ahead of the 58.5% nearby average, ranking 2nd of 8.
The federal government classifies WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's location as Suburb: Large.
Enrollment at WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL was 1,239 in 2020-21 and 1,228 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 12.4:1; by 2024-25 it was 14.0:1.
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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 JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 817 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 JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 817 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 JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 817
- BABYLON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 337
- SOUTH BAY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 288
- BABYLON MEMORIAL GRADE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 490
- JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 348
- BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 662
Frequently asked questions
About WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,228 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL serve?
WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.0:1 students per teacher at WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
At WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 44% White, 38% Hispanic, 12% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in?
WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is part of WEST BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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