Baker Prairie Middle School

Baker Prairie Middle School is a moderately sized middle school in Canby, Oregon, part of Canby SD 86. The school serves 532 students in grades 7 through 8.

Canby SD 86 comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 4,134 students; Baker Prairie Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Baker Prairie Middle School records that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 35% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Baker Prairie Middle School has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.3:1 average. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Clackamas County (around 50%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Baker Prairie Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.1%, the actual is 24.6%, a residual of -13.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Clackamas County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $103,517 per year, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Clackamas County runs 118 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,601 students), of which Baker Prairie Middle School is one.

Cecile Trost Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Baker Prairie Middle School. On composite proficiency, Baker Prairie Middle School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 31.0%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 12%: 604 students in 2018 compared to 532 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 63% to 58% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.

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