Rev. Henry E. Baker Sr. Interm. School

Located at 1645 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr., in Winchester, Kentucky, Rev. Henry E. Baker Sr. Interm. School is a mid-tier middle-grades school that caters to 767 students (grades 5 through 6), part of Clark County. Enrollment runs roughly 37% above the state mean of about 558.

Across the 10 schools in Clark County (5,552 students total), Rev. Henry E. Baker Sr. Interm. School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rev. Henry E. Baker Sr. Interm. School reports that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Clark County as a whole is about 89% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 64% of students at Rev. Henry E. Baker Sr. Interm. School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Rev. Henry E. Baker Sr. Interm. School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.2%.

Around the school, Clark County reports that median household earnings sit near $64,348, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Clark County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,552 students), Rev. Henry E. Baker Sr. Interm. School is one campus in the mix.

Strode Station Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rev. Henry E. Baker Sr. Interm. School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 37.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Rev. Henry E. Baker Sr. Interm. School's enrollment has edged down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 886 (now 767). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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