Lower Kuskokwim School District
Alaska's Diversity Is Everywhere, and It Isn't Moving
At East Anchorage High School, students speak roughly 50 native languages. Across the district, 112 languages show up on home-language surveys. Anchorage is, by several measures, one of the most racia...
Alaska Native Graduation Rate Stuck at 68%
In 2022, 64.5% of Alaska Native students graduated from high school on time. It was the lowest point in seven years of data. Three years later, the rate has clawed back to 68.0%. That recovery, such a...
15 Alaska Districts Below 70%: The Rural Bush Crisis
In the Yupiit School District, which serves four Yup'ik villages along the Kuskokwim River accessible only by small aircraft or boat, 17 of 37 seniors graduated in 2025. That is a 46.0% graduation rat...
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.
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...
Alaska Loses One in 20 Native Students in Seven Years
The Lower Kuskokwim School District stretches across 22 Yup'ik villages in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, a roadless expanse of tundra the size of West Virginia. Seven years before the 2025-26 count, 4,04...