Editing West Babylon, New York (section)

== Public schools==
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The [[West Babylon Union Free School District]] serves about half of the CDP of West Babylon and parts of [[Babylon (village), New York|Babylon Village]] and [[Wyandanch, New York|Wyandanch]].

The Venetian Shores neighborhood of West Babylon is in the [[Lindenhurst Union Free School District]]. Since this area is also served by the Lindenhurst Post Office, it  is commonly viewed as part of [[Lindenhurst, New York|Lindenhurst]].{{citation needed|date=April 2013}}

The area around Sawyer Avenue Park is within the Babylon Union Free School District.

East of Belmont Avenue (from Sunrise Highway to Montgomery Avenue), north of Montgomery Avenue (from Belmont Avenue to Little East Neck Road), east of Little East Neck Road (from Montgomery Avenue to Straight Path), and southeast of an imaginary line that stretches from the Straight Path/Little East Neck Road intersection to the Wyandanch Avenue/Belmont avenue intersection, is within the North Babylon Union Free School District.

An area of Wyandanch that is served by the West Babylon Post Office is thought of as a part of West Babylon in the Wyandanch Union Free School District, and there is also a small portion of West Babylon served by the Wyandanch Union Free School District (around Cumberbach Street), but is also served by the Wyandanch post Office.

Main School, when it was built, was the only school in the town serving grades K-10 (older students were sent to Babylon High School). It has been said that the famed poet and writer [[Walt Whitman]] was a temporary teacher there. However, since he died in 1892, it would have been before the school district was formed, and he clearly could not have taught at Main School. By the mid-1950s, the building had been expanded, becoming an elementary school. It was demolished in June 1982. [[Robert Moses]] participated in the cornerstone-laying ceremony of Santapogue Elementary School, in the fall of 1951. The school opened in September 1952, relieving the overcrowded situation at Main School.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}

As of the 2010-2011 school year, the West Babylon Union Free School District had 4,360 students. The racial demographics were 0% Native American or Alaska Native, 7% non-Hispanic black or African-American, 13% Hispanic or Latino, 76% non-Hispanic white, 4% Asian or Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander and 0% multiracial. 17% of students were eligible for free lunch, 8% for reduced-price lunch, and 3% of students were Limited English Proficient. 11.8% of students were classified as "Special Ed".

The school district had a graduation rate of 90%, and 1% of students did not complete school. 93% of graduates received a Regents Diploma and 50% received a Regents Diploma with Advanced Designation. Of the 2011 completers, 47% planned to move on to 4-year College, 39% to 2-year College, 1% to Other Post-Secondary, 2% to the Military, 8% to Employment, 0% to Adult Services, 1% had other known post-secondary plans, and 2% had no known post-secondary plan.

The district currently has: 
*Five elementary schools (grades K-5): Forest Avenue, John F. Kennedy, Santapogue, South Bay, and Tooker Avenue
*One middle school (grades 6-8): West Babylon Junior High School
*One high school (Grades 9-12): [[West Babylon High School]]

For the 2011-2012 school year, the Accountability Status for all seven schools in the district and the district as a whole was "In Good Standing".