Chugach Optional Elementary

Chugach Optional Elementary operates as a reasonably sized primary school in Anchorage, Alaska, part of Anchorage School District. Current enrollment sits at 275 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

Across the 92 schools in Anchorage School District (40,587 students total), Chugach Optional Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Chugach Optional Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. Other groups include 13% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 3% Native American. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.1:1. The state averages around 15.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 12% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Anchorage Municipality runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Chugach Optional Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Alaska public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 49.4%; Chugach Optional Elementary posts 67.8%, +18.3 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Anchorage Municipality indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,284 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Anchorage Municipality's 99 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,241 students), Chugach Optional Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Central Middle School of Science, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chugach Optional Elementary.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Chugach Optional Elementary's enrollment has increased 7% since 2018, when it stood at 257 (now 275).

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