Summary:
Baker, California, has three schools in the Baker Valley Unified district, serving kindergarten through grade 12: Baker Elementary (K–5), Baker Junior High (6–8), and Baker High (9–12). The clearest current strength is Junior High English language arts (ELA), where 37% of students met the standard in 2025–26, but every reported school result in ELA, math, and science was below California’s result; the largest gap to the state was 30 points in math.
Baker Junior High leads current reported ELA at 37%, compared with 10% at Baker Elementary—a 27-point difference. Elementary leads reported math results, 10% to Junior High’s 7%, while Junior High leads science, 8% to Elementary’s 6%. Both schools’ results remain well below state figures. Baker High has no reportable all-grades results for 2025–26; its latest available results, from 2024–25, were below the state in all three subjects. Attendance is a separate concern at High: chronic absenteeism was 27%, versus 15% at Elementary and 13% at Junior High, and the state’s 18%.
Recent changes favor Junior High in ELA: its result rose 28 points from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while Elementary’s fell 3 points. Math was less encouraging: Junior High rose 4 points, but Elementary fell 3 points. SchoolDigger rankings also show mixed movement: Junior High rose from the 1st to the 17th percentile (1 star in 2025–26), while Elementary was at the 0th percentile (0 stars); High’s latest ranking was the 31st percentile (2 stars) in 2024–25. As context, the 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible measure was 76% at Elementary, 69% at Junior High, and 55% at High; these figures describe the schools and do not explain their results. Enrollment is small and grade spans differ, so results may not be directly comparable.
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