Largest Schools in Alaska
Alaska has 496 public schools across 54 districts with a total enrollment of 130,723 students. The largest school is Interior Distance Education of Alaska (IDEA) in Fairbanks.
Largest Schools in Alaska
| # | School | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Interior Distance Education of Alaska (IDEA) | Fairbanks | 6,899 |
| 2 | Raven School | Fairbanks | 2,771 |
| 3 | Mat-Su Central School | Wasilla | 2,254 |
| 4 | West High School | Anchorage | 1,763 |
| 5 | Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School | Anchorage | 1,745 |
| 6 | Family Partnership Charter School | Anchorage | 1,740 |
| 7 | CyberLynx Correspondence Program | Nenana | 1,673 |
| 8 | Service High School | Anchorage | 1,544 |
| 9 | Dimond High School | Anchorage | 1,443 |
| 10 | Bartlett High School | Anchorage | 1,373 |
Largest Districts in Alaska
School data for Alaska is sourced from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results.
Frequently Asked Questions
The largest public school in Alaska by enrollment is Interior Distance Education of Alaska (IDEA) in Fairbanks with 6,899 students.
Alaska has 496 public schools across 54 school districts, with a total enrollment of 130,723 students.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. This includes enrollment, student-teacher ratios, proficiency rates, and graduation rates.
School data includes enrollment, student-teacher ratios, proficiency rates, and graduation rates from NCES and EDFacts.
The this entity category groups every U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment entity sharing this attribute. The list above is the data; the paragraphs below explain what the grouping means against the broader NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts distribution and how to read the relative rankings within the category.
For readers using this category as a starting point, the per-entity detail pages linked from the table above carry the underlying NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts data in full. The category-level view is the filter; the per-entity pages are the actual answer.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.