NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in West Babylon, NY

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7 public K-12 schools in West Babylon from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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7
Schools
3,597
Students
43.1/100
Avg Resource Index
10.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, West Babylon has more public-school enrollment than 38% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. West Babylon's 7 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

4 of West Babylon's 7 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

West Babylon's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 61st percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 97th percentile. The 36-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 62%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
61st percentile
Teacher staffing
97th percentile

West Babylon Senior High School accounts for 34.1% of all West Babylon public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means West Babylon-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

West Babylon school enrollment varies 4.4× across entities

West Babylon school enrollment ranges from 278 students (lowest) to 1,228 students (highest), a spread of 950 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

West Babylon operates one school district — a single-district system

West Babylon's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

West Babylon student-teacher ratio is 10.6:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. West Babylon Senior High School 52
2. John F Kennedy School 49
3. West Babylon Junior High School 47
4. Tooker Avenue School 43
5. Forest Avenue School 42
6. Santapogue School 35
7. South Bay School 34

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in West Babylon

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Santapogue School 65.2/100
  2. 2 West Babylon Senior High School 64.7/100
  3. 3 West Babylon Junior High School 63.5/100
  4. 4 Forest Avenue School 62.6/100
  5. 5 Tooker Avenue School 60.9/100

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Which West Babylon school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

West Babylon Senior High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the West Babylon schools in this federal-data comparison at 52/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in West Babylon, NY? ▼

West Babylon has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,597 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.6:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.