J. R. Baker Elementary

Located at 1301 Hamphire PIKE, in Columbia, Tennessee, J. R. Baker Elementary is a cozy elementary campus that works with 283 students (grades pre-K through 4), one of the schools within Maury County. Compared to the state average of about 470 students per school, that is 40% leaner than typical.

Maury County runs 24 schools in total, collectively educating 13,098 students. J. R. Baker Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, J. R. Baker Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 23% Hispanic, 20% Black, 10% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Maury County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,130 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Maury County's 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,098 students), J. R. Baker Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Whitthorne Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 22%: 362 students in 2018 compared to 283 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 65% to 46% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.