Creekside Park Elementary

Located at 7500 E 6th Ave, in Anchorage, Alaska, Creekside Park Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school that serves 399 students (grades pre-K through 6), overseen by Anchorage School District. By comparison, Alaska's public schools average about 277 students each, so Creekside Park Elementary sits 44% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Anchorage School District, which oversees 92 schools and 40,587 students, Creekside Park Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Creekside Park Elementary shows that 22% of students identify as multiracial, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 17% Pacific Islander, 13% Native American, 13% Asian, 13% White.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.3:1, putting Creekside Park Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Anchorage Municipality runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Creekside Park Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.3%, the actual is 21.3%, a residual of -3.0 points.

In the surrounding community, Anchorage Municipality reports that median household income runs about $103,284, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Anchorage Municipality runs 99 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,241 students), of which Creekside Park Elementary is one.

Nicholas J. Begich Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 8%: 434 students in 2018 compared to 399 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 23% to 13% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 today.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.