Thursday, August 27, 2026

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Fairbanks Closed Three Schools. It Was Not Enough.

Correction (July 23, 2026): An earlier version said Mat-Su had grown 3.3% since its first full year in the dataset. The correct figure is 4.1%.

Half of Alaska's Districts Hit Record Lows

In Sleetmute, a village of 80 people on the Kuskokwim River, an architect declared the school building unsafe for occupancy in 2021. The foundation had deteriorated to rubble. The Kuspuk School Distri...

Anchorage Lost More Students Than All of Alaska

Campbell STEM Elementary is Alaska's only STEM-certified elementary school. It has a waitlist. And it was approved for closure at the end of the 2025-26 school year because the Anchorage School Distri...

Alaska Enrollment Hits Seven-Year Low

Anchorage lost 4,530 students in seven years. Fairbanks lost 2,017. Juneau lost 753. Together, Alaska's three largest traditional school districts shed more students than the entire state did, because...