Baker Place Elementary

Baker Place Elementary operates as a sprawling K-5 school in Grovetown, Georgia, run under Columbia County. Current enrollment sits at 958 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 58% larger than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Columbia County runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 28,964 students. Baker Place Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Baker Place Elementary lists that 39% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 36% Black, 14% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Columbia County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Baker Place Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.6%, the actual is 67.9%, a residual of +11.3 points.

Around the school, Columbia County reports that median household income runs about $95,592, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Columbia County runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,518 students), of which Baker Place Elementary is one.

Grovetown High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Baker Place Elementary. On composite proficiency, Baker Place Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 54.0%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 6%: 905 students in 2018 compared to 958 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 25% to 36% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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