Baldwin Junior High School

Baldwin Junior High School, a compact intermediate school in Baldwin City, Kansas, overseen by Baldwin City, enrolls 309 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 402 students per school, that is 23% smaller than typical.

Baldwin Junior High School is one of 4 schools operated by Baldwin City, a district that serves 1,387 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Baldwin Junior High School lists that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Douglas County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Baldwin Junior High School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. Around 33% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Baldwin Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.4%, the actual is 39.9%, a residual of -6.5 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Douglas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $69,746 per year, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Baldwin Junior High School is one of 30 public schools in Douglas County (combined enrollment of about 13,766 students).

The closest other public school is Baldwin High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Baldwin Junior High School. On composite proficiency, Baldwin Junior High School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 42.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 313 students in 2018 compared to 309 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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