Summary:
Baldwin City has one high school, Baldwin High School, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 437 students. In 2025–2026, its proficiency rates were 54% in English language arts (ELA), 48% in math and 40% in science, above Kansas in all three subjects. The clearest takeaway is that the school’s advantage over the state was strongest in ELA and math, and much smaller in science.
There is no meaningful top-versus-bottom comparison because Baldwin is the only high school listed. Within the school’s results, ELA was strongest: it was 8 percentage points above the state, compared with 7 points above in math and 1 point above in science. Grade-specific results were also above state rates: 10th-grade ELA was 13 points higher, 10th-grade math 12 points higher, and 11th-grade science 10 points higher. These results point to stronger relative performance in ELA and math, although science was also above the state.
ELA showed the biggest recent improvement relative to Kansas: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Baldwin’s rate rose from 41% to 54%, while the state rate moved from 44% to 46%; Baldwin went from 3 points below the state to 8 points above. Math rose from 45% to 48%, and its advantage over the state widened by about 1 point. SchoolDigger ranked Baldwin 51st of 340 schools, in the 85th percentile, in 2025–2026, compared with 92nd of 332 (72nd percentile) the previous year and 78th of 318 (75th percentile) in 2023–2024. Other context: graduation was 91%, 2 points above the state; chronic absenteeism was 12%, 6 points below; the free/reduced-lunch rate was 28%, and the student–teacher ratio was 13.7.
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