Anchorage Municipality · Alaska
Anchorage, AK public schools
Enrollment, school count, staffing and per-pupil spending for Anchorage School District — federal education data, not a star rating.
Quick answer
Anchorage School District is the primary public district for Anchorage, AK. It enrolls 43,727 students in 96 schools with 2,424 full-time-equivalent teachers, and spends $19,178 per pupil, 11% above the $17,320 median across the metros covered here.
- Students enrolled
- 43,727NCES Common Core of Data, 2021-22
- Schools in the district
- 96Operating school count
- Students per teacher
- 18Enrollment ÷ FTE teachers, not class size
- Spending per pupil
- $19,178Total current expenditure, FY2020
Who pays for schools in Anchorage
Where the district's money comes from, FY2020.
- Local revenue
- 29.1%
- $216,644,000
- State revenue
- 59.2%
- $439,730,000
- Federal revenue
- 11.7%
- $86,834,000
Local revenue is mostly property tax, which is why the Anchorage property tax rate and school funding move together. Of every dollar spent, about 52 cents reaches instruction — teacher salaries, benefits and classroom materials — with the rest covering transport, buildings, food service and administration.
What this data covers
Read this before comparing districts.
Figures describe Anchorage School District (LEAID 0200180) as a whole, not any individual school. Charter schools authorised outside the district, private schools and regional vocational schools are not included. Where a city is served by a county-wide district, the county district is used and its catchment is wider than the city limits. Enrollment is from the 2021-22 NCES collection; money is from the FY2020 Census school finance survey, which is the most recent complete national release — the two years do not line up exactly, so per-pupil spending is a stable indicator rather than a current budget line.
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Other Anchorage data on this site.
NCES LEAID 0200180. Finance figures are Census Annual Survey of School System Finances (F-33) totals as redistributed by the Urban Institute Education Data API.