Public Schools in Alaska
496 schools · 54 districts · 130,723 students
Largest Schools in Alaska
School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.
Interior Distance Education of Alaska (IDEA)
Fairbanks
Raven School
Fairbanks
Mat-Su Central School
Wasilla
West High School
Anchorage
Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School
Anchorage
Family Partnership Charter School
Anchorage
CyberLynx Correspondence Program
Nenana
Service High School
Anchorage
Dimond High School
Anchorage
Bartlett High School
Anchorage
Frequently Asked Questions
Alaska has 496 public schools across 54 districts, serving 130,723 students.
The largest school in Alaska is Interior Distance Education of Alaska (IDEA) with 6,899 students. Alaska has 496 public schools overall.
The average proficiency rate is 49%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.
School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.