Enrollment
35
Middle
DISTRICT 42 · STATE 659
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BAKER VALLEY UNIFIED·NCES 060361010304
Baker Junior High
72100 School House Ln., Baker, CA 92309 · (760) 733-4567 · San Bernardino County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL35 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
3 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.4:1 · STATE 20.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
24 students
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Baker Junior High→Baker High
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Baker Valley Unified. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
16.1%
CA avg 47.1% . -28.9pp since 2014
Math
6.5%
CA avg 35.6% . -6.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 16 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 6 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 29 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 7 points.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
11.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.6%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-27.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 11% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 39% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
35
-6 (-15%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 12.6:1
% White
23%
was 10%
% Hispanic
77%
was 90%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About Baker Junior High
Set in Baker, California, Baker Junior High is a tiny junior high, run under Baker Valley Unified. It educates 35 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 95% smaller than the state mean of about 659.
Baker Valley Unified comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 125 students; Baker Junior High is among them.
Demographically, Baker Junior High logs that 77% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 23% White. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Baker Junior High tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 69% of students at Baker Junior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
With demographic context factored in, Baker Junior High is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 38.6%; Baker Junior High posts 11.0%, -27.6 points below that line.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (San Bernardino County) records that median household income runs about $85,478, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Baker Junior High is one of 583 public schools in San Bernardino County (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students).
Nearest neighbor: Baker High, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Baker Junior High.
Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 15%: 41 students in 2018 compared to 35 in 2025. The White share of enrollment climbed from 10% to 23% over that span.
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San Bernardino County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,197,104
Census ACS
Median income
$85,478
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
583
393,648 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Baker Valley Unified
- Baker ElementaryElementary · 59 students
- Baker HighHigh · 31 students
Other schools in Baker
- Baker ElementaryElementary · 59 students
- Baker HighHigh · 31 students
Nearby schools
- Baker High0.0 mi · 31
- Baker Elementary0.0 mi · 59
- Newberry Springs Elementary43.7 mi · 106
Frequently asked questions
About Baker Junior HighHow many students attend Baker Junior High?
Baker Junior High enrolls approximately 35 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Baker Junior High serve?
Baker Junior High serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Baker Junior High?
Approximately 13.4:1 students per teacher at Baker Junior High.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Baker Junior High?
At Baker Junior High, the student body is approximately 23% White, 77% Hispanic.
What district is Baker Junior High in?
Baker Junior High is part of Baker Valley Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.