Welcome to the Home of the Buffaloes
At Baker High School, we are dedicated to fostering academic excellence, personal growth, and community pride. Serving grades 9-12 in the City of Baker School System, we provide a safe, supportive, and engaging learning environment designed to help every student thrive and reach their highest potential.
Our Mission
The City of Baker School System shall provide a quality education for all students by creating a learning community that will prepare them for their roles as life-long learners and high-achieving citizens in a global society. We seek to model and encourage high standards for success, preparing our students for excellence in all future endeavors.
The Helix Partnership: "Come Home to BAKER"
Through a transformative collaborative management partnership with Helix Community Schools, our institution has been revitalized into Baker High School, a Helix Fintech & Performing Arts Academy. This initiative brings an innovative, tuition-free academic framework to our campus, bridging public school traditions with cutting-edge career pathways.
Our students benefit from advanced, hands-on learning tracks designed for the modern world:
- Financial Technology (Fintech): Early exposure to modern business, digital economics, and financial technology concepts.
- Performing Arts & Media Production: Expanded programs in creative arts, music, digital media, and broadcasting. This includes student-led content creation through The Buffalo Vault media program.
Our History & Legacy
Founded in the early 1900s to serve northern East Baton Rouge Parish, Baker High School holds a historic place in Louisiana's educational landscape. Our unique, fan-shaped school auditorium was built in 1959 and was officially added to the National Register of Historic Placesin 2014 due to its mid-century architectural significance.
For decades, the school operated under the East Baton Rouge Parish school board. Following years of community effort to secure local control, a historic independent school district was finalized. On July 1, 2003, the City of Baker School System officially launched as Louisiana's 67th school district, with Baker High School standing proud as its flagship high school.
Distinguished Alumni
Baker High School has a proud legacy of graduating leaders who have made global, national, and regional impacts:
Linda Thomas-Greenfield: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and career diplomat.
Don Lemon: Widely recognized television journalist and news anchor.
Billy Brown: Track and field legend who competed in the triple jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Hokie Gajan, Jerald Sowell, and John Sawyer: Former NFL players who made significant impacts in professional football.
School Quick Facts
- Mascot: The Buffaloes (The Buffs)
- School Motto: "If we want what we've never had, then we must do what we've never done"
- School Colors: Red, Black, and White
- Grades Served: 9th - 12th Grade
- Alma Mater:
Hail to thee, old Baker High
Thou the molder of our ways.
Through the years we’ll keep
Thy Love
And thy standards raise,
Hail to thee, old Baker High
Keep the spirits that sing praise
Fondest memories come of thee
Alma Mater Hail! - by Ossie Brown - Location: 3200 Groom Road, Baker, LA 70714
Contact US
7:00 AM - 2:45 PM | Monday - Friday
3200 Groom Road
Baker, LA 70714
Phone: (225) 775-1259
Fax: (225) 532.4300
Ashley Taylor
Co-School Leader, Instruction & Academic Achievement
Focus: Teaching, Learning & Student Achievement
Senobia Smith
Co-School Leader, Culture & Student Experience
Focus: School Culture, Climate & Student Success
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