Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School

Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School is a high school of well-populated scale in Anchorage, Alaska, operated by Anchorage School District, hosting 1,636 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 373 students per school, that is 339% larger than typical.

Anchorage School District comprises 92 schools with combined enrollment of 40,587 students; Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School lists that 19% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 17% multiracial, 16% White, 14% Native American, 14% Hispanic. By comparison, Anchorage Municipality as a whole is about 10% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Anchorage Municipality (around 49%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

In the surrounding community, Anchorage Municipality reports that median household earnings sit near $103,284, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School is one of 99 public schools in Anchorage Municipality (combined enrollment of about 41,241 students).

Nearest neighbor: Russian Jack Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School has shrank 19%, going from 2,031 students in 2018 to 1,636 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 today.

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