Correction: An earlier version included claims the state graduation data did not establish and compared four-year and five-year measures as though they followed the same cohort. This revision limits the findings to state-package records and rebuilds every numeric claim from fresh output.

Alaska Native students' four-year graduation rate was 68.0% in 2025: 1,414 graduates from a cohort of 2,081. The statewide rate was 79.9%, leaving an 11.9-percentage-point difference.

The Alaska Native rate rose 3.4 points from a seven-year low of 64.5% in 2022. It remained 0.6 points below the 68.6% rate reported in 2019.

Two persistent comparisons

The statewide-minus-Alaska Native difference ranged from 11.6 to 13.6 points during 2019-2025. The white graduation rate was 85.8% in 2025, which was 17.8 points above the Alaska Native rate. Across the seven years, the white-Alaska Native difference averaged 18.0 points and ranged from 17.1 to 19.3 points.

Alaska Native students were 21.0% of the statewide cohort in 2025. There were 667 Alaska Native students who did not graduate on time, or 33.4% of the state's 1,999 non-graduates.

Two reported subgroups had lower four-year rates: students in special education at 61.1% and students experiencing homelessness at 63.4%. English learners were at 68.3%.

District rates varied

The Yupiit School District^↗ET graduated 17 of 37 students in its cohort, a 46.0% rate. The Lower Kuskokwim School District^↗ET reported 66.3%, the North Slope Borough School District^↗ET 66.4%, and the Northwest Arctic Borough School District^↗ET 69.2%.

Anchorage School District^↗ET reported 83.3%, a 37.3-point difference from Yupiit. These district records show where rates differed; the graduation dataset does not identify the causes.

The central result is narrower than the earlier article suggested. Alaska Native students' rate recovered from its 2022 low by 2025, but it remained below both the statewide and white rates. The state-package records measure those outcomes, not the mechanisms behind them.

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