Baker Web Academy, Baker City OR

Original Research by School Decision on Baker Web Academy

Baker Web Academy is a statewide online public charter school serving kindergarten through twelfth grade, based in Baker City, Oregon. It operates as a regular school within Baker School District 5J, offering families a fully remote learning option. The school enrolls a large student body for its grade band, drawing from across the state. Its students are predominantly white, with a notable Hispanic population and smaller shares of students who identify as two or more races, American Indian or Alaska Native, Black, Asian, or Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. The school has not reported the share of students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, nor has it reported data on students with disabilities or English learners, so the full picture of who the school serves is incomplete.

Baker Web Academy was launched by the district in 2022 as a permanent alternative to in-person instruction. Students follow a flexible, self-paced curriculum supported by district teachers, and they have access to the same district resources including counseling and special education services. For a family weighing this option, the defining feature is the virtual format itself: school happens at home, on a schedule the family sets, with district oversight and Oregon state standards guiding the curriculum. This arrangement fits students who need or want to learn outside a traditional classroom, whether for health reasons, scheduling conflicts, or a preference for independent study.

On state assessments administered in the 2024-2025 school year, the school’s overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades placed above the midpoint among the districts in Baker County. The available data shows one year of results, so there is no trend to examine. In English language arts, proficiency rates were in the middle range, with a gradual upward pattern from third grade through eighth grade, where nearly half of students met the standard. In math, proficiency rates were lower across all tested grades, with roughly one-quarter to one-third of students meeting the bar depending on the grade. In science, about one-third of tested students were proficient at both the fifth- and eighth-grade levels. A parent considering this school should look into how the virtual setting affects math instruction and support, since that subject area shows a notable gap compared to English language arts.

Because Baker Web Academy serves grades K-12 and is a regular public school with a charter, its students are expected to take state assessments, and the school reports graduation rates for its high school cohort. No graduation data was available in this profile, so a parent may want to ask the school directly about four-year graduation outcomes and postsecondary plans for its seniors.

Baker City, where the school is based, is a small county seat in eastern Oregon with a historic downtown and a tourism-driven economy. Housing values in the area are well below the state average and below the national average, making it a relatively affordable place to live for families who relocate to be near the school’s administrative office. The district itself passed a bond in 2024 for facility improvements across its brick-and-mortar schools, but those infrastructure investments are less relevant to a fully virtual school. More directly notable is the district’s recent shift to standards-based grading in its elementary schools, which Baker Web Academy may adopt or align with; a parent should confirm how the academy reports student progress. The district also expanded career and technical education pathways through Baker Technical Institute, and virtual students may have access to those programs, though that was not confirmed in the data at hand.

For a family evaluating this school, the central question is whether a self-paced online environment matches their student’s learning style and their own capacity to provide daily structure. The school is large, virtual, and relatively new, and the academic results are in a middle band compared to neighboring districts, with math as a clear area to investigate further.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

70.0%Cohort of 235 students · Class of 2021

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

326 schools plotted. 10 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 335%

School 35% · District 31% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▼ 4 pts below state median

Grade 434%

School 34% · District 35% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 1 pts below state median

Grade 527%

School 27% · District 28% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 1 pts below state median

Grade 622%

School 22% · District 28% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 5 pts below state median

Grade 731%

School 31% · District 28% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 2 pts above state median

Grade 827%

School 27% · District 30% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 1 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 336%

School 36% · District 31% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▼ 4 pts below state median

Grade 439%

School 39% · District 39%

▼ 2 pts below state median

Grade 543%

School 43% · District 41% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▼ 3 pts below state median

Grade 636%

School 36% · District 39% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▼ 4 pts below state median

Grade 748%

School 48% · District 41% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 3 pts above state median

Grade 850%

School 50% · District 45% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 9 pts above state median

Science

Grade 533%

School 33% · District 34% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▲ 5 pts above state median

Grade 833%

School 33% · District 32% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 7 pts above state median

This schoolBaker SD 5J, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.