Baker Heights Elementary School

Baker Heights Elementary School is a K-5 school of small scale in Baker, Louisiana, overseen by City of Baker School District, hosting 381 students in grades pre-K through 5.

City of Baker School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,000 students. Baker Heights Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Baker Heights Elementary School logs that 85% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest looks like 11% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, East Baton Rouge Parish as a whole is about 44% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Baker Heights Elementary School logs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, East Baton Rouge Parish runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Baker Heights Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 20.5%; this one comes in at 6.0%, -14.5 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, East Baton Rouge Parish reports that median household earnings sit near $63,071, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across East Baton Rouge Parish's 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), Baker Heights Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Park Ridge Academic Magnet School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Baker Heights Elementary School at 4th of 4; the average score across the group is 30.7%.

Baker Heights Elementary School operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Baker Heights Elementary School's enrollment has increased 70% since 2018, when it stood at 224 (now 381). Black enrollment moved from 97% to 85% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.