Enrollment
246
Elementary
DISTRICT 316 · STATE 277
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ANCHORAGE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 020018000060
Birchwood ABC Elementary
17010 Birchtree St, Eagle River, AK 99567 · (907) 742-3450 · Anchorage Municipality
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL246 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 15.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
61 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 19 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 40 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 38 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 29 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 41 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 44 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 35 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (40) is 14% larger than its 5th grade class (35).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
AK STAR + Alaska Science 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientEnglish Language Arts
54.1%
AK avg 36.1% . +11.9pp since 2023
Math
67.6%
AK avg 34.6% . +11.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the AK STAR + Alaska Science, Alaska's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alaska schools, those numbers are about 36 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
AK STAR + Alaska Science results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.1% | 67.6% |
| 2023-24 | 42.2% | 56.0% |
% Advanced + Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: AK STAR + Alaska Science. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
58.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.9%
based on AK schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% typical for Alaska schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Alaska's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Birchwood ABC Elementary
Birchwood ABC Elementary's state test result (58.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birchwood ABC Elementary this school | 246 | 24.8% | 58.9% |
| Hermon Hutchens Elementary Valdez | 287 | 26.8% | 54.4% |
| Rabbit Creek Elementary Anchorage | 288 | 20.8% | 58.6% |
| Huffman Elementary Anchorage | 268 | 17.2% | 66.2% |
| Discovery Peak Charter School North Pole | 193 | 19.2% | 31.4% |
| Point Higgins School Ketchikan | 204 | 22.1% | 43.4% |
Matched among Alaska elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Birchwood ABC Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alaska | In Anchorage Municipality |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.9% | #13 of 134 | #7 of 55 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.6% | #9 of 150 ▲ 13 | #3 of 62 ▲ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.1% | #19 of 150 ▲ 38 | #12 of 62 ▲ 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 246 | #108 of 169 | #52 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #62 of 125 | #27 of 56 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.6% | #102 of 125 | #48 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.8% | #119 of 142 | #44 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.8% | #69 of 115 | #36 of 53 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
246
+5 (+2%) vs 2020
-33% since 1990-91, when it was 366
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 12.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 246 | 15.5 | 15.9:1 | 25% (61) |
| 2023-24 | 239 | 16.8 | 14.2:1 | 23% (55) |
| 2022-23 | 205 | 15.6 | 13.2:1 | 19% (38) |
| 2020-21 | 241 | 20 | 12.1:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 292 | 20.6 | 14.2:1 | 19% (56) |
| 2015-16 | 332 | 22 | 15.1:1 | 19% (63) |
| 2010-11 | 333 | 18 | 18.5:1 | 14% (45) |
| 2000-01 | 407 | 23 | 17.7:1 | 8% (34) |
| 1990-91 | 366 | 17 | 21.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Birchwood ABC Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (292 to 246); teachers down 25% (20.6 to 15.5).
About Birchwood ABC Elementary
Birchwood ABC Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Alaska, with an address in Eagle River. Students in pre-K through 6 make up the school's enrollment of 246 students.
Anchorage School District serves 40,587 students across 92 schools.
The student body at Birchwood ABC Elementary is 69% White. The rest of enrollment is 15% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 4% Native American, and 3% Asian. Among all residents of Anchorage Municipality, the White share is about 57%. A diversity index of 50% means there is a 50% chance two randomly chosen students at Birchwood ABC Elementary are from different groups.
Birchwood ABC Elementary reported 15.5 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 15.9:1. The 15.3:1 average for elementary schools in Alaska is close to this figure. There are 61 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 25% of enrollment. The gap from the 49% average for public schools in Anchorage Municipality is 24 points.
Birchwood ABC Elementary is 14.1 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (58.9% versus 44.9%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Alaska.
Anchorage Municipality is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $103,284, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Public schools in Anchorage Municipality number 99, with about 41,241 students.
Measured in a straight line, Chugiak High School is about 0.3 miles from Birchwood ABC Elementary. The five-mile area around Birchwood ABC Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 46.0% proficiency; Birchwood ABC Elementary posts 58.9%.
Under the NCES locale system, Birchwood ABC Elementary is Rural: Fringe.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 241 in 2020-21, 246 in 2024-25. The ratio was 12.1:1 in 2020-21 and 15.9:1 in 2024-25.
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Anchorage Municipality at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
288,976
Census ACS
Median income
$103,284
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
99
41,241 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Anchorage School District
- West High SchoolHigh · 1,702 students
- Bettye Davis East Anchorage High SchoolHigh · 1,636 students
- Service High SchoolHigh · 1,518 students
- Bartlett High SchoolCombined · 1,431 students
- Dimond High SchoolHigh · 1,373 students
- South Anchorage High SchoolHigh · 1,239 students
Other schools in Eagle River
- Gruening Middle SchoolMiddle · 797 students
- Eagle River High SchoolHigh · 771 students
- Ravenwood ElementaryElementary · 367 students
- Alpenglow ElementaryElementary · 278 students
- Alaska Middle College SchoolHigh · 272 students
- Eagle River ElementaryElementary · 266 students
Nearby schools
- Chugiak High School0.3 mi · 928
- Fire Lake Elementary2.1 mi · 195
- Distance Learning/Corresp. Ctr.2.9 mi · 105
- Chugiak Elementary2.9 mi · 439
- Eagle River Elementary4.0 mi · 266
- Eagle Academy Charter School4.1 mi · 205
Frequently asked questions
About Birchwood ABC ElementaryHow many students attend Birchwood ABC Elementary?
Birchwood ABC Elementary enrolls approximately 246 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Birchwood ABC Elementary serve?
Birchwood ABC Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many teachers does Birchwood ABC Elementary have?
Birchwood ABC Elementary employs 15 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.9:1.
How diverse is Birchwood ABC Elementary?
Birchwood ABC Elementary reports a student body of 69% White, 7% Hispanic, 2% Black, 3% Asian, 15% Two or more.
What district is Birchwood ABC Elementary in?
Birchwood ABC Elementary is part of Anchorage School District.
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