George F. Baker High School


George F. Baker High School is the public secondary school educating students in grades 7 through 12 in the Tuxedo Union Free School District. It is located on NY 17 in Tuxedo, New York, United States, near the gates of the village Tuxedo Park.
It educates students from the town of Tuxedo and the village, as well as those from the Greenwood Lake school district in the nearby Town of Warwick. The school imposed a demanding all-Regents curriculum on students before the state Education Department began requiring it.
In 2007 the school's future was seriously challenged when voters in the Greenwood Lake and Warwick districts considered the former's proposal to send its high school students to Warwick instead of Tuxedo. Had it passed, Baker would have lost 80% of its students and the district would have had to consider closing the school and sending its own students to another district's high school, possibly Suffern. Greenwood Lake voters approved the plan, but it was rejected in Warwick.
In 2015 the school enrollment dropped by over 200 to about 80 students, after Greenwood Lake School District ended its contract to send students to Tuxedo. This caused a drop of $2.5 million in the Tuxedo budget. The school planned to expand the Baker school to grades 7-12. Also in 2015, the school's principal and superintendent resigned their positions.