Kenai Peninsula
Alaska's Absence Rate Is Falling, but Few Districts Are Back at Baseline
Alaska's chronic absence rate fell again in 2024-25, but the annual improvement was smaller than in either of the preceding reporting years. The statewide rate remained well above its pre-pandemic bas...
Alaska's Reported Five-Year Graduation Gap Peaked in 2021
> Correction: The original headline and article treated four-year and five-year rates carrying the same report year as if they followed the same students. They describe adjacent cohorts, so the report...
Alaska Graduates Just 80% of Students
In 2025, roughly 1,999 Alaska students who started high school four years earlier did not walk at graduation. That is one in five.
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%.