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Enrollment
407
Elementary
DISTRICT 357 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051185000903
BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
15001 KANIS ROAD, LITTLE ROCK, AR 72223 · (501) 228-3250 · Pulaski County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL407 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
106 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 70%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 73 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (73) is 55% larger than its 5th grade class (47).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 61% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
69.2%
AR avg 34.9% . +1.2pp since 2023
Math
64.9%
AR avg 38.9% . +0.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.2% | 64.9% |
| 2023-24 | 68.0% | 64.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3+4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: ATLAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of AR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
65.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.1%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 50% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Arkansas's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (65.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 407 | 26.0% | 65.4% |
| OSAGE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BENTONVILLE | 551 | 27.8% | 46.3% |
| CHENAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 448 | 27.5% | 64.3% |
| CENTRAL PARK AT MORNING STAR BENTONVILLE | 604 | 17.9% | 61.5% |
| DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 1,035 | 30.6% | 65.9% |
| LISA ACADEMY ROGERS-BENTONVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ROGERS | 393 | 44.3% | 58.3% |
Matched among Arkansas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pulaski County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.4% | #12 of 461 | #4 of 63 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.9% | #29 of 465 ▼ 2 | #5 of 63 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.2% | #6 of 465 ▼ 1 | #2 of 63 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 407 | #270 of 531 | #34 of 72 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #137 of 480 | #21 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.1% | #13 of 480 | #2 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.0% | #494 of 513 | #69 of 69 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.8% | #84 of 138 | #11 of 14 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
407
+16 (+4%) vs 2020
+40% since 1990-91, when it was 291
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 13.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 407 | 27 | 15.1:1 | 26% (106) |
| 2023-24 | 392 | 25.9 | 15.1:1 | 21% (84) |
| 2022-23 | 386 | 25 | 15.4:1 | 23% (90) |
| 2020-21 | 391 | 29 | 13.5:1 | 16% (62) |
| 2017-18 | 381 | 27.1 | 14.1:1 | 12% (46) |
| 2015-16 | 436 | 26 | 16.8:1 | 23% (102) |
| 2010-11 | 511 | 28 | 18.3:1 | 16% (81) |
| 2000-01 | 319 | 17 | 18.8:1 | 16% (50) |
| 1990-91 | 291 | 14 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school in PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, located in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 407 students.
PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 26 schools with a combined 12,586 students. BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of them.
Of every 100 students at BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 38 are White, the largest group. Smaller groups are 33% Black, 19% Asian, 5% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Pulaski County is roughly 49% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 70, compared with 70 nationally.
The student-to-teacher ratio at BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 15.1:1, based on 27 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Arkansas is 16.0:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL counts 26% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Pulaski County average 71%.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is +15.3 points, in the top 10% of Arkansas. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 65.4%, and the predicted rate is 50.1%.
In Pulaski County, the median household earns about $62,873 a year, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. Pulaski County has 133 public schools with about 64,124 students, including BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARK WEST LITTLE ROCK ELEM, about 1.6 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st in a group of 9 nearby schools.
The NCES locale for BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is City: Mid-size, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 4%, from 391 to 407. The number of students per teacher increased from 13.5 to 15.1 over 4 years.
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Pulaski County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
399,818
Census ACS
Median income
$62,873
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
133
64,124 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SYLVAN HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,120 students
- JOE T. ROBINSON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,030 students
- MAUMELLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 869 students
- SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 772 students
- SYLVAN HILLS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 721 students
- MILLS UNIVERSITY STUDIES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 612 students
Other schools in LITTLE ROCK
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,567 students
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY ELEMENTARYElementary · 1,387 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,315 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
Other Baker Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 7 states are named Baker Elementary. BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 4th largest of the 10.
- Baker Elementary SchoolAcworth, GA · 738 students
- Baker ElementaryEl Monte, CA · 601 students
- Baker Elementary SchoolPittsburgh, PA · 471 students
- Baker ElementarySan Diego, CA · 361 students
- Baker Elementary SchoolFORT MORGAN, CO · 321 students
Nearby schools
- FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARK WEST LITTLE ROCK ELEM1.6 mi · 61
- FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMIES OF ARKANSAS WEST LITTLE ROCK1.6 mi · 56
- LISA ACADEMY WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 575
- TERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.6 mi · 328
- LISA ACADEMY WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL2.9 mi · 430
- LISA ACADEMY ARKANSAS HYBRID SCHOOL2.9 mi · 236
Frequently asked questions
About BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 407 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 15.1:1 students per teacher at BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 38% White, 5% Hispanic, 33% Black, 19% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.