Kuspuk
Six Alaska Districts Have Fewer Than 100 Students
The school in Pelican enrolls 16 students. The entire district is one building, on an island in the Gulf of Alaska accessible only by floatplane or state ferry. There is no road to Pelican. There is n...
Fairbanks Closed Three Schools. It Was Not Enough.
Christine Fik's children attended Pearl Creek Elementary, a school their family considered a community, not just a building. In February 2025, the Fairbanks North Star Borough school board voted 5-2 t...
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...