Babylon High School Earns Awards for Financial Literacy

The W!SE Financial Literacy Program has named Babylon Junior-Senior High School a Blue Star School for the third straight year and teacher Andrew Marulis was also named a Gold Star Teacher award based on performance results in the school’s Wall Street and personal finance class.

Each year, the classes’ students take the W!SE financial literacy exam. To earn the Blue Star School status, schools testing 10 or more students must achieve a 75 percent passing rate on this exam and have either a majority of students on a given grade level take the test or have the students who took it achieve an average score of 80 percent or higher. 

Teachers with a 90 percent pass rate earn the title of Gold Star Teacher and are honored at W!SE’s annual MoneyPOWER Conference for Financial Literacy. 

A few hundred schools in New York State participate in the W!SE Financial Literacy program. 

“This program provides students with practical applications for real-world concepts,” said Marulis.

For the past several years, Babylon has ranked among the top five schools on Long Island. The high school has continued to offer the elective to students in grades 10 through 12 for the past three years.