Baker school enrollment steady compared with last year
Published 12:00 pm Monday, September 25, 2023
- Baker High School students gather at Baker Bulldog Memorial Stadium in early September. Enrollment at the school is down slightly from a year ago, at 521 compared with 530 in early September 2022.
Enrollment in the Baker School District at the start of the current school year was nearly identical to the total from a year ago.
In the second week of classes earlier this month, the district counted 1,698 students.
That’s an increase of nine students from last year at the same time.
The biggest changes at individual schools are Brooklyn Primary, which houses grades 1-3, and South Baker Intermediate, grades 4-6.
Brooklyn’s enrollment this year is 259, a decrease of 23 from a year ago.
South Baker, meanwhile, has an enrollment of 302 students, an increase of 25 from last year.
Other schools:
• Baker High: 521 (530 in 2022)
• Baker Middle: 249 (250 in 2022)
• Haines Elementary: 164 (147 last year)
• Keating Elementary: 22 (19 last year)
• Baker Early Learning Center: 75 (90 last year)
• Eagle Cap Innovative High School: 74 (71 last year)
• Baker Virtual Academy: 32 (23 last year)
As for the district’s statewide charter schools, the Baker Web Academy has 2,647 students enrolled, and the Baker All Prep Early College program has 519 students.
Based on totals at Baker Middle School and the elementary schools, the high school enrollment is likely to increase over the next few years.
The smallest class at BHS now is the senior class, with 99 students.
The junior class has 131 students, the sophomore class 159, and the freshman class 132. There are 126 eighth graders and 123 seventh graders.
The total for first through sixth grades, including Keating and Haines elementary, which have students from K-6, range from 100 (third graders) to 132 (fourth graders).
