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Alumni: what's one memory from Baker Heights Elementary School that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
381
Elementary
DISTRICT 238 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CITY OF BAKER SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 220004000342
Baker Heights Elementary School
5903 Groom Road, Baker, LA 70714 · (225) 775-1493 · East Baton Rouge Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL381 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 0% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Louisiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
339 students
DISTRICT 88% · STATE 70%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 58 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 56 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 44 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 51 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 48 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (71).
Student demographics
27%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 24% · STATE 65% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within City of Baker School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2024-25 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
12.0%
LA avg 41.4% . +2.0pp since 2022
Math
9.0%
LA avg 33.2% . -3.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 12 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 9 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 41 and 33. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 3 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 12.0% | 9.0% |
| 2023-24 | 5.0% | 7.0% |
| 2022-23 | 10.0% | 12.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of LA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
7.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.2%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 8% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 20% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Baker Heights Elementary School
Baker Heights Elementary School's state test result (7.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baker Heights Elementary School this school | 381 | 89.0% | 7.6% |
| Donaldsonville Primary School Donaldsonville | 371 | 88.9% | N/A |
| Brownfields Elementary School Baton Rouge | 368 | 90.8% | 34.8% |
| Woodland Park Magnet Hammond | 458 | 90.0% | 13.3% |
| Lincoln School for the Arts Marrero | 467 | 88.4% | 18.0% |
| W. Smith Jr. Elementary School Violet | 333 | 88.9% | 23.2% |
Matched among Louisiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Baker Heights Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In East Baton Rouge Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 7.6% | #579 of 583 | #49 of 49 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 9.0% | #555 of 582 ▲ 9 | #47 of 49 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 12.0% | #573 of 587 ▲ 12 | #48 of 50 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 381 | #423 of 714 | #39 of 67 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #578 of 655 | #53 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.8% | #511 of 655 | #36 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.0% | #141 of 705 | #22 of 65 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +70.1% | #12 of 197 | #2 of 17 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
381
+38 (+11%) vs 2020
+2% since 2010-11, when it was 375
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 15.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 381 | 23.4 | 16.3:1 | 89% (339) |
| 2023-24 | 391 | 21.5 | 18.2:1 | 70% (275) |
| 2022-23 | 401 | 19 | 21.1:1 | 53% (211) |
| 2020-21 | 343 | 22 | 15.6:1 | 68% (232) |
| 2017-18 | 224 | 14 | 16.0:1 | 44% (98) |
| 2015-16 | 264 | 16 | 16.5:1 | 87% (229) |
| 2010-11 | 375 | 21 | 17.9:1 | 85% (320) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Baker Heights Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 70% (224 to 381); teachers up 67% (14 to 23.4).
About Baker Heights Elementary School
Baker Heights Elementary School, a small elementary school, is located in Baker, Louisiana. In all, 381 students attend the school in pre-K through 5.
City of Baker School District runs 4 schools with a combined 1,000 students. Baker Heights Elementary School is one of them.
Baker Heights Elementary School is 85% Black by enrollment. Next come 11% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. That compares with about 44% Black among all East Baton Rouge Parish residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 27%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Baker Heights Elementary School is 16.3:1, based on 23.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Louisiana is 14.0:1, so this school has more students per teacher. Baker Heights Elementary School counts 89% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in East Baton Rouge Parish average 70%.
Baker Heights Elementary School earns an F on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 0% of Louisiana public elementary schools.
Baker Heights Elementary School is a bottom-10% school in Louisiana on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 7.6% against a predicted 20.2%.
In the surrounding county, East Baton Rouge Parish, the median household earns about $63,071 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and about 14% of people live in poverty. Counting Baker Heights Elementary School, East Baton Rouge Parish has 132 public schools.
Less than a tenth of a mile separates Baker Heights Elementary School from the closest public school, Park Ridge Academic Magnet School. The five-mile area around Baker Heights Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Baker Heights Elementary School ranks 4th of 5 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 7.6% against a local average of 22.3%.
NCES assigns Baker Heights Elementary School the locale Rural: Fringe, meaning in rural territory close to an urban area.
Enrollment rose by 11% across 4 years, from 343 in 2020-21 to 381 in 2024-25.
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East Baton Rouge Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
452,938
Census ACS
Median income
$63,071
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
132
66,892 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in City of Baker School District
- Baker High SchoolHigh · 370 students
- Baker Middle SchoolMiddle · 155 students
- Park Ridge Academic Magnet SchoolElementary · 94 students
Other schools in Baker
- Advantage Charter AcademyElementary · 743 students
- Impact Charter SchoolElementary · 429 students
- Baker High SchoolHigh · 370 students
- Baker Middle SchoolMiddle · 155 students
- GEO Prep BakerElementary · 121 students
- White Hills Elementary SchoolElementary · 105 students
Nearby schools
- Park Ridge Academic Magnet School0.0 mi · 94
- Baker Middle School0.1 mi · 155
- Advantage Charter Academy0.3 mi · 743
- White Hills Elementary School0.7 mi · 105
- GEO Prep Baker0.8 mi · 121
- Impact Charter School1.1 mi · 429
Frequently asked questions
About Baker Heights Elementary SchoolHow large is Baker Heights Elementary School?
Baker Heights Elementary School enrolls approximately 381 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Baker Heights Elementary School serve?
Baker Heights Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Baker Heights Elementary School have?
Baker Heights Elementary School employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Baker Heights Elementary School?
Student demographics at Baker Heights Elementary School are roughly 2% White, 11% Hispanic, 85% Black, 2% Two or more.
What district is Baker Heights Elementary School in?
Baker Heights Elementary School is part of City of Baker School District.
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