Baldwin Park Unified School District’s first school house was built on the southeast corner of North Maine and Los Angeles avenues in 1882. The district serves kindergarten through twelfth grade and has since grown from 14 students in 1884 to more than 18,000 today. The district currently consists of 13 elementary schools, four junior high schools, two comprehensive high schools, one continuation high school, an adult school of 5,000 and a Children's Center.