Park Ridge Academic Magnet School

Park Ridge Academic Magnet School operates as an one-room-style primary school in Baker, Louisiana, one of the schools within City of Baker School District. Current enrollment sits at 94 students spanning grades K through 8. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Park Ridge Academic Magnet School sits 79% leaner than that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, Park Ridge Academic Magnet School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (90%); the rest looks like 7% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 44% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, East Baton Rouge Parish runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Park Ridge Academic Magnet School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.9%, the actual is 24.0%, a residual of +6.1 points.

Around the school, East Baton Rouge Parish reports that median household income runs about $63,071, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across East Baton Rouge Parish's 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), Park Ridge Academic Magnet School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Baker Heights Elementary School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Park Ridge Academic Magnet School. On composite proficiency, Park Ridge Academic Magnet School comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 24.7%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Park Ridge Academic Magnet School has edged down 58%, going from 225 students in 2018 to 94 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 3% to 7%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 today.

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