Baxter Elementary

Baxter Elementary operates as an average-sized elementary-level community in Anchorage, Alaska, part of Anchorage School District. Current enrollment sits at 239 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

Baxter Elementary is one of 92 schools operated by Anchorage School District, a district that works with 40,587 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Baxter Elementary shows that 25% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 16% Native American, 15% Asian, 15% multiracial, 12% Hispanic. By comparison, Anchorage Municipality as a whole is about 57% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Anchorage Municipality's rate of about 49%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Baxter Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 30.1%; actual is 15.0%, a gap of -15.1 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Anchorage Municipality indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,284 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Anchorage Municipality's 99 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,241 students), Baxter Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Alaska State School for Deaf and Hard of Hearing, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Baxter Elementary has declined 34%, going from 362 students in 2018 to 239 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 32% to 25%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

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