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Black student results in Bakersfield City

Across 18 schools in Bakersfield City, 10.5% of Black students meet standard met or exceeded. That is 13.9 points below the California average for Black students.

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18.4%
All students
10.5%
Black
18.6%
Hispanic
28.9%
White

Average across the 18 schools in Bakersfield City with reportable results, giving each school equal weight regardless of size. A group is omitted from a school when too few students were tested to report safely.

The distance inside one district

Among the 16 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Chipman Junior High reports 25.6% of Black students meeting the standard. Longfellow Elementary, in the same district, reports 2.3%. That is a 23.3-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Bakersfield City

Ranked by the share of Black students meeting standard met or exceeded. Every group is shown alongside, because a school that serves one group well and another poorly is telling you something too.

SchoolAllBlackHispanicWhiteAsian
Chipman Junior High 30.8% 25.6% 29% 41.4%
Bessie E. Owens Elementary 34.6% 20.4% 35.4% 43.5%
Frank West Elementary 22.3% 20% 22.3%
Munsey Elementary 22.3% 17.9% 20.6%
Compton Junior High 18.9% 15.6% 18.1% 30.1%
Sequoia Jr. High 14% 13.9% 14% 25%
Walter Stiern Middle 16% 9.7% 15.4% 22.6%
Stella I. Hills Elementary 10.4% 8.9% 10.9%
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary 11% 8.3% 11.5%
Curran Middle 17.5% 7.9% 18.8% 15.2%
Caroline Harris Elementary 27.7% 7.4% 28.7%
McKinley Elementary Magnet 13.3% 7.4% 13.9%
Abraham Lincoln Jr. High 9.2% 7.3% 9.3%
Emerson Middle 15.3% 6.4% 15.7% 26.3%
Washington Middle Magnet 12.7% 5.2% 13.2% 15.1%
Franklin Elementary Magnet 32.8% 4% 34.9% 40.9%
Longfellow Elementary 11.6% 2.3% 11.7%
Myra A. Noble Elementary 11.6% 0% 11.8%

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How to read this. California suppresses results for groups with too few students tested, and reports by grade rather than by school, so many schools fall below the threshold — 1,331 of California's schools have reportable Black student results, across 24 counties. Coverage is grades 3–8; high schools are not included. Because every state sets its own proficiency standard, California figures should not be compared against another state's.

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