Baker Elementary
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Baker Elementary
Set in San Diego, California, Baker Elementary is a small primary school, overseen by San Diego Unified. It enrolls 361 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 22% smaller than typical.
San Diego Unified comprises 174 schools with combined enrollment of 94,828 students; Baker Elementary is among them.
Demographically, Baker Elementary reports that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 9% Black. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 97% of students at Baker Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, San Diego County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, Baker Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.6%; this one delivers 24.5%.
In the broader community, San Diego County reports that median household earnings sit near $106,268, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across San Diego County's 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), Baker Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Chavez Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Baker Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 22.1%.
The school occupies a high-density site.
Looking at the recent track record. Baker Elementary's enrollment has fell 14% since 2018, when it stood at 422 (now 361). The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 83% to 87% over that span.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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