Baldwin Elementary Primary Center

Baldwin Elementary Primary Center is a primary school of medium-sized scale in Baldwin City, Kansas, operated by Baldwin City, instructing 365 students in grades pre-K through 2.

Baldwin City comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,387 students; Baldwin Elementary Primary Center is among them.

On the student-mix side, Baldwin Elementary Primary Center logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). The remainder reads as 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 78% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Around the school, Douglas County reports that median household income runs about $69,746, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Douglas County's 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,766 students), Baldwin Elementary Primary Center is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Baldwin Elementary Intermediate Center, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Baldwin Elementary Primary Center.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Baldwin Elementary Primary Center's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 358 (now 365). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for Baldwin Elementary Primary Center typically covers classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.