BAKER-KOONCE INT

BAKER-KOONCE INT is one of the middle-of-the-pack 6-8 campuss in CARTHAGE, Texas, operated by CARTHAGE ISD, with 566 students on its rolls from grades 4 through 6.

BAKER-KOONCE INT is one of 5 schools operated by CARTHAGE ISD, a district that hosts 2,637 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BAKER-KOONCE INT reports that 60% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 19% Hispanic, 17% Black, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 73%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, BAKER-KOONCE INT has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 54% of students at BAKER-KOONCE INT qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BAKER-KOONCE INT sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.2%; this one delivers 41.0%.

In the surrounding community, Panola County reports that median household income runs about $64,894, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Panola County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,884 students), BAKER-KOONCE INT is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CARTHAGE J H, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around BAKER-KOONCE INT. On composite proficiency, BAKER-KOONCE INT comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.7%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 5%: 593 students in 2018 compared to 566 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 54% to 60% across the same window.

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