Bakersfield City
Key statistics
Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.
Students
By grade
- Kindergarten 3,618
- Grade 1 2,930
- Grade 2 2,885
- Grade 3 3,070
- Grade 4 3,123
- Grade 5 3,188
- Grade 6 3,260
- Grade 7 3,126
- Grade 8 3,165
By race/ethnicity
- Hispanic/Latino 83%
- White 7%
- Black or African American 7%
- Asian 1%
- Two or more races <1%
- American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
- Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%
- Race not reported <1%
Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.
Free and reduced-price lunch
- Free lunch 82%
- Reduced-price lunch 6%
Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.
Spending and revenue
Spending per student
- Instruction $12,885
- Support services $6,978
- Other (food service, etc.) $934
Where the money comes from
- Local 9%
- State 75%
- Federal 17%
Total revenue $699.0 milliontotal spending $640.4 million
Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.
District details
Grades served
KG to 08
Locale (NCES)
City: LargeStudents: 65% city, 29% suburb, 5% rural
Total staff (FTE)
3,674
District office
1300 Baker St., Bakersfield CA 93305
Phone
County
Kern County
Official website
NCES District ID
603630
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About Bakersfield City
Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.