GEORGE F BAKER HIGH SCHOOL

GEORGE F BAKER HIGH SCHOOL is one of the minimally staffed secondary schools in TUXEDO PARK, New York, overseen by TUXEDO UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 96 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so GEORGE F BAKER HIGH SCHOOL sits 86% smaller than that benchmark.

TUXEDO UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 182 students; GEORGE F BAKER HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, GEORGE F BAKER HIGH SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 31% Hispanic, 16% Black, 3% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

On the resource side, On paper, GEORGE F BAKER HIGH SCHOOL has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 4.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 42% of students at GEORGE F BAKER HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GEORGE F BAKER HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.7%, the actual is 64.0%, a residual of +4.3 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Orange County put median household earnings sit near $97,178, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Orange County's 82 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,122 students), GEORGE F BAKER HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is GEORGE GRANT MASON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around GEORGE F BAKER HIGH SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GEORGE F BAKER HIGH SCHOOL at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 45.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. GEORGE F BAKER HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 9% since 2018, when it stood at 105 (now 96). White enrollment moved from 76% to 50% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 8.0:1 in 2018 to 4.4:1 in 2025.

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