Fast Track

Fast Track is a very small school serving multiple grade levels in Ketchikan, Alaska. The school offers kindergarten through 12 and enrolls 76 students. On average, combined schools in Alaska enroll around 192, and this school is 60% below that mark.

Within Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District, Fast Track is one of 9 schools. The district enrolls 2,043 students.

Federal enrollment data show Fast Track is 62% White. The next largest groups are 20% Native American, 12% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, and 3% Black. In Ketchikan Gateway Borough overall, the White share is about 63%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 56%.

With 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 38.0:1. Statewide, combined schools in Alaska average 27.0:1.

In Ketchikan Gateway Borough, home to about 13,768 people, median household income comes to about $92,885, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. There are 9 public schools in the county, enrolling about 2,043, Fast Track among them.

A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, Ketchikan High School, is the closest to Fast Track. The count of other public schools within five miles is 6.

By NCES locale, the school is Town: Remote, or in a town far from an urbanized area. Fast Track is listed as a virtual school by the National Center for Education Statistics.

The 2020-21 count was 168 students and the 2024-25 count was 76. A difference that large may reflect a change in which grades the school serves. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 168.0:1 in 2020-21 to 38.0:1 in 2024-25.

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