WILLIAM E DELUCA JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 223 PHELPS LN, in NORTH BABYLON, New York, WILLIAM E DELUCA JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an average-sized primary school that serves 401 students (grades K through 5), operated by NORTH BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Across the 7 schools in NORTH BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (4,603 students total), WILLIAM E DELUCA JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, WILLIAM E DELUCA JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 25% Black, 22% White, 7% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, WILLIAM E DELUCA JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 52% of students at WILLIAM E DELUCA JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Suffolk County (around 39%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, WILLIAM E DELUCA JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 56.0%; WILLIAM E DELUCA JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 18.8%, -37.2 points below that line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Suffolk County put median household earnings sit near $130,686, 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 WILLIAM E DELUCA JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

ROBERT MOSES MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WILLIAM E DELUCA JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. WILLIAM E DELUCA JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has climbed 3% since 2018, when it stood at 390 (now 401). The White share of enrollment edged down from 40% to 22% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 in 2025.

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