WOODS ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in NORTH BABYLON, New York, WOODS ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an intimate primary school, operated by NORTH BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It caters to 355 students across grades K through 5.

NORTH BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,603 students; WOODS ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WOODS ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 33%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 29% White, 23% Black, 9% Asian, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 46% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, WOODS ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 58.2%; WOODS ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 24.7%, -33.5 points below that line.

In the area at large, census data for Suffolk County shows median household income runs about $130,686, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), WOODS ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PARLIAMENT PLACE SCHOOL, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WOODS ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, WOODS ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. WOODS ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 10% since 2018, when it stood at 394 (now 355). The White share of enrollment shrank from 41% to 29% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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