Clark Middle School

Clark Middle School is a junior high of big scale in Anchorage, Alaska, one of the schools within Anchorage School District, works with 713 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Alaska's public schools average about 399 students each, so Clark Middle School sits 79% larger than that benchmark.

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

On demographics, Clark Middle School shows that the largest single group is Pacific Islander at 21%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 17% Asian, 17% multiracial, 16% Native American, 13% Hispanic.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 101% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Anchorage Municipality's rate of about 49%.

With demographic context factored in, Clark Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.4%, the actual is 12.2%, a residual of -6.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, 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), Clark Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: William Tyson Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Clark Middle School.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Clark Middle School has edged down 21%, going from 900 students in 2018 to 713 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment shrank from 23% to 17% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 26.0:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Clark Middle School typically covers enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.