Correction, August 1, 2026: An earlier draft incorrectly described Kodiak as having Alaska's smallest pandemic-era increase, lowest five-year variability, and a rate below the state in every measured year. Among the 18 districts in the comparison, Kodiak ranked sixth on the first measure and fourth on the second; its 2019 rate was 0.6 points above the state. A later verification corrected the reported 2025 multiracial rate to 27.9% after identifying an inconsistent rounding rule.

Kodiak Island Borough School District^↗ET has had a steadier chronic-absence record than most of Alaska's larger districts, but not the steadiest. Its published rate rose from 23.4% in 2019 to 34.4% in 2022, peaked at 36.3% in 2023, then eased to 33.7% and 33.6% in the next two years.

Steadier than most

Among the 18 Alaska districts with at least 1,000 students in the 2025-26 enrollment file and four or more reported chronic-absence years, Kodiak's five-year standard deviation was 5.09 percentage points. That was the fourth-lowest, behind Denali Borough, Matanuska-Susitna Borough and Nenana City.

Kodiak's 2019-to-2022 increase was 11.1 points, the sixth-smallest in the same 18-district comparison. Three districts recorded no increase at all, and two others had smaller increases than Kodiak.

In 2024-25, Kodiak's 33.6% rate was 9.3 points below Alaska's 42.8%. Kodiak was below the state in four of the five measured years. The exception was 2019, when Kodiak's 23.4% rate was 0.6 points above the statewide 22.7%.

A mixed subgroup record

The district's 2022-to-2025 subgroup results do not support a claim that every group improved. White students moved from 34.4% to 29.2%, a 5.2-point decline. Multiracial students moved from 34.6% to 27.9%, a 6.7-point decline. Alaska Native students improved from 49.1% to 43.9%, while Hispanic students moved in the other direction, from 41.1% to 43.1%.

Stability is not recovery

Kodiak enrolled 1,983 students in 2025-26. Its latest chronic-absence rate was almost unchanged from the prior year, improving by just 0.1 point, and it remained 10.2 points above 2019. The package data support a relative-stability finding, not a turnaround claim and not an explanation for why Kodiak's pattern differs from other districts.

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