Baker Middle School

Baker Middle School serves grades 5–8 in Kayenta, Arizona, and has 447 students; there are no other schools within 20 miles. The clearest takeaway is that math is Baker’s strongest subject relative to the state, while ELA has its largest shortfall.

With no nearby schools to compare, the available benchmarks are the district and state. In 2025–26, all-grades math proficiency was 25% at Baker, compared with 33% statewide and 19% in Kayenta Unified School District #27. ELA proficiency was 24%, compared with 41% statewide and 20% districtwide, making ELA Baker’s larger state gap. Grade-level results show a mixed math picture: fifth- and sixth-grade proficiency exceeded state results (41% vs. 38%, and 34% vs. 30%), while eighth grade was lower (19% vs. 30%). Seventh-grade ELA was especially low at 17%, compared with 43% statewide. In 2024–25, science proficiency also trailed the state in fifth grade (23% vs. 34%) and eighth grade (13% vs. 30%).

Fifth-grade science has improved, rising from 11% in 2022–23 to 23% in 2024–25, though it remained below the state’s 34%; eighth-grade science increased from 9% to 13% over the same reported years. SchoolDigger placed Baker at the 24th percentile and gave it 1 star in 2025–26, up 9 percentile points from 2023–24; the district was at the 8th percentile with 0 stars. SchoolDigger’s statewide measure of how well Baker serves Multi-racial students rose from the 28th to the 70th percentile between 2020–21 and 2022–23, while its measure for Special Education students fell from the 67th to the 23rd percentile. The latest reported student–teacher ratio was 13.5, and the reported free/reduced-lunch rate was 89% in 2022–23. Some subgroup comparison pools are small, so those shifts warrant caution.