North Babylon High School, North Babylon NY

Original Research by School Decision on North Babylon High School

North Babylon High School serves a diverse student body of roughly fifteen hundred students across grades nine through twelve in a regular public setting. The student population is about evenly split across racial and ethnic lines, with significant representation of Hispanic, Black, and white students, and a smaller Asian population. Nearly half the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a figure that reflects the economic reality of the communities the school serves.

The school draws from North Babylon, a hamlet on Long Island dominated by modest single-family homes—Cape Cods, ranches, and split-levels—with a strong suburban, family-oriented character. The broader housing market in the area shows median home values in the mid-range for Long Island, with monthly rents somewhat above half a typical home's purchase price. The neighborhood is auto-oriented and lacks a fully formed downtown; civic life clusters around the Deer Park Avenue corridor, which holds the two public schools, the public library, and the central commercial section. The school itself sits on Phelps Lane near Phelps Lane Park. Major transit includes Suffolk County bus routes and the LIRR Babylon Station about a short distance away. Development pressure is visible in new multifamily housing and garden-apartment communities appearing along the corridor as the town works to revitalize Deer Park Avenue into a recognizable downtown center.

A parent choosing North Babylon High School should know that the school transitioned to a nine-period day beginning in the 2024-2025 school year, a structural change the district presented as providing greater scheduling flexibility, expanded access to electives, the ability to earn more credits, smaller class sizes in certain courses, and increased access to career pathways and advanced-study options. This is a meaningful shift in how the school day is organized and what a student can pursue. Starting in the 2025-2026 school year, the school also implemented New York State's bell-to-bell restriction on internet-connected devices, barring student phone use throughout the entire school day.

State testing data, four-year graduation rates, chronic absenteeism rates, and detailed proficiency metrics were not available for this school, so a parent would need to contact the school directly or review the district's website for current performance information and completion rates. The school operates within the North Babylon Union Free School District, which has seen notable increases in both spending and tax levy over the past several years—a cost factor for prospective homeowners considering the area.

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Academic performance

How students graduate and prepare for what comes next.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

94.0%Cohort of 351 students · Class of 2021

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

1,253 schools plotted. 14 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Advanced Placement & IB

24 subjects offered · 2023-24

Each card is one AP or IB subject. The headline number is the share of students scoring 3 or higher on the exam — the threshold for college credit at most universities. The bar below each rate shows the underlying distribution across performance levels.

Score:12· no credit345· extremely well qualified

Math and Computer Science

Calculus AB

30 tested

60.0%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

5 tested

40.0%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science A

10 tested

10.0%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

17 tested

41.2%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

27 tested

55.6%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

34 tested

67.6%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

16 tested · Grade 10

81.3%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

21 tested

61.9%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 1

26 tested

46.2%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Mechanics

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

English

Seminar

34 tested · Grade 10

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

European History

2 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Human Geography

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

3 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

75 tested

81.3%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

Italian Language and Culture

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Language and Culture

33 tested · Grade 10

75.8%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Music Theory

6 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

99 tested

37.4%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

77 tested

57.1%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 2d Design

12 tested

75.0%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

61 tested

67.2%

scored 3 or higher

World History

91 tested · Grade 10

50.5%

scored 3 or higher

New York Regents Exams

4 courses reported · 2024-25

End-of-course exams required for a New York Regents diploma. Each row shows the cohort size and the share of students scoring at the proficient level or higher.

Course	Students tested	% proficient
Ela	443	80.0%
Social Studies	440	76.0%
Math	374	56.0%
Science	334	60.0%

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.