Chipman Junior High

Chipman Junior High, an average-sized middle school in Bakersfield, California, one of the schools within Bakersfield City, works with 708 students, covering grades 7 through 8.

Bakersfield City comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 28,365 students; Chipman Junior High is among them.

Demographically, Chipman Junior High records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 76%. The remainder looks like 15% White, 6% Black. By comparison, Kern County as a whole is about 57% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kern County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Chipman Junior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.0%, the actual is 32.7%, a residual of -7.3 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Kern County indicate median household income runs about $70,210, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Chipman Junior High is one of 279 public schools in Kern County (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students).

Nearest neighbor: Henry Eissler Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Chipman Junior High comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 24.5%.

Chipman Junior High operates from a downtown location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Chipman Junior High has fell 21%, going from 892 students in 2018 to 708 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 25.4:1 in 2018 to 21.7:1 in 2025.

On this page, the feed for Chipman Junior High typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.