Baker Middle School

Baker Middle School, a tiny middle-grades school in Baker, Louisiana, part of City of Baker School District, caters to 155 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 440 students each, so Baker Middle School sits 65% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 4 schools in City of Baker School District (1,000 students total), Baker Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Baker Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (82%); the rest is composed of 12% Hispanic, 5% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 41.0:1, putting Baker Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 86% of students at Baker Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above East Baton Rouge Parish's rate of about 70%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for East Baton Rouge Parish indicate median household income runs about $63,071, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, East Baton Rouge Parish runs 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), of which Baker Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Park Ridge Academic Magnet School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Baker Middle School operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Baker Middle School's enrollment has shrank 33% since 2018, when it stood at 233 (now 155). Over the same period, the Black share fell from 97% to 82%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 25.8:1 today.

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