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Juneau City and Borough · Alaska

Juneau, AK public schools

Enrollment, school count, staffing and per-pupil spending for Juneau Borough School District — federal education data, not a star rating.

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Quick answer

Juneau Borough School District is the primary public district for Juneau, AK. It enrolls 4,338 students in 15 schools with 271 full-time-equivalent teachers, and spends $22,324 per pupil, 29% above the $17,320 median across the metros covered here.

Students enrolled
4,338NCES Common Core of Data, 2021-22
Schools in the district
15Operating school count
Students per teacher
16Enrollment ÷ FTE teachers, not class size
Spending per pupil
$22,324Total current expenditure, FY2020

Who pays for schools in Juneau

Where the district's money comes from, FY2020.

Local revenue
34.1%
$31,966,000
State revenue
55.8%
$52,220,000
Federal revenue
10.1%
$9,446,000

Local revenue is mostly property tax, which is why the Juneau property tax rate and school funding move together. Of every dollar spent, about 56 cents reaches instruction — teacher salaries, benefits and classroom materials — with the rest covering transport, buildings, food service and administration.

Reading the Juneau numbers

What the 2021-22 NCES and FY2020 Census finance numbers say about this district.

At $22,324 per pupil the district spends 29% more than the $17,320 metro median, outspending 81% of the districts covered. Instruction takes 56 cents of each dollar — $12,482 per student — with the remainder on transport, buildings, food service and administration.

Funding is split roughly evenly — 34.1% local, 55.8% state — so both the local tax base and the AK aid formula matter to what this district can spend. Federal aid contributes 10.1%, near the typical share for a large urban district.

4,338 students across 15 schools averages 289 students per building, and the district is smaller than the typical district covered here (44,998 students). That is a small-building district; neighbourhood elementary schools dominate the count. The 16:1 student-to-teacher ratio is ordinary for this set of districts (median 15.2:1). It counts all FTE teachers district-wide, so actual class sizes run higher.

What this data covers

Read this before comparing districts.

Figures cover Juneau Borough School District (LEAID 0200210) as one unit, not any single school in Juneau. Independently authorised charter schools, private schools and regional vocational programs are counted separately by NCES and are not in these totals. Enrollment is the 2021-22 NCES collection; dollars are the FY2020 Census F-33 survey, the latest complete national release. The two years differ, so per-pupil spending is a stable indicator rather than a live budget line.

Other Juneau datasets on this site.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data + Census F-33, via Urban Institute Education Data · rates as published for 2021-22 / FY2020

NCES LEAID 0200210. Finance figures are Census Annual Survey of School System Finances (F-33) totals as redistributed by the Urban Institute Education Data API.