Enrollment
267
Elementary
DISTRICT 316 · STATE 277
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ANCHORAGE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 020018000078
Gladys Wood Elementary
7001 Cranberry St, Anchorage, AK 99502 · (907) 742-6760 · Anchorage Municipality
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL267 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 46% of Alaska public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Alaska public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 15.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
203 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 | 37 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 33 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 38 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 46 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 33 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 32 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (33) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (32).
Student demographics
83%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
31.0%
AK avg 36.1% . -1.6pp since 2023
Math
27.4%
AK avg 34.6% . -0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the AK STAR + Alaska Science, Alaska's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alaska schools, those numbers are about 36 and 35. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
AK STAR + Alaska Science results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.0% | 27.4% |
| 2023-24 | 32.6% | 27.7% |
% 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
35.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.1%
based on AK schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% 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 Gladys Wood Elementary
Gladys Wood Elementary's state test result (35.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gladys Wood Elementary this school | 267 | 76.0% | 35.4% |
| Northwood ABC Anchorage | 255 | 79.6% | 26.4% |
| Taku Elementary Anchorage | 258 | 76.0% | 29.2% |
| College Gate Elementary Anchorage | 363 | 65.0% | 24.6% |
| Spring Hill Elementary Anchorage | 291 | 86.6% | 19.5% |
| Chinook Elementary Anchorage | 365 | 73.2% | 25.2% |
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 Gladys Wood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alaska | In Anchorage Municipality |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.4% | #86 of 134 | #31 of 55 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.4% | #110 of 150 ▼ 8 | #36 of 62 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #100 of 150 ▼ 14 | #36 of 62 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 267 | #95 of 169 | #43 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #22 of 125 | #3 of 56 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 82.9% | #13 of 125 | #13 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.0% | #24 of 142 | #18 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.6% | #31 of 115 | #18 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
267
-45 (-14%) vs 2020
-48% since 1990-91, when it was 510
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 14.9:1
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 | 267 | 18.8 | 14.2:1 | 76% (203) |
| 2023-24 | 294 | 20.4 | 14.4:1 | 71% (209) |
| 2022-23 | 295 | 21 | 14.0:1 | 75% (221) |
| 2020-21 | 312 | 21 | 14.9:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 374 | 24.8 | 15.1:1 | 56% (210) |
| 2015-16 | 417 | 26 | 16.0:1 | 51% (213) |
| 2010-11 | 455 | 25 | 18.2:1 | 58% (262) |
| 2000-01 | 515 | 25 | 20.6:1 | 21% (108) |
| 1990-91 | 510 | 22 | 23.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Gladys Wood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (374 to 267); teachers down 24% (24.8 to 18.8).
About Gladys Wood Elementary
In Anchorage, Alaska, part of Anchorage Municipality, Gladys Wood Elementary is an elementary school. Classes run from pre-K through 6, and the school has 267 students.
The district, Anchorage School District, operates 92 schools serving 40,587 students.
multiracial students are the largest group at Gladys Wood Elementary, with 25% of enrollment. Other reported shares: 19% White, 18% Native American, 13% Pacific Islander, and 10% Asian. Gladys Wood Elementary has a diversity index of 83%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Gladys Wood Elementary's 18.8 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 14.2:1. That ratio is under the 15.3:1 average for elementary schools in Alaska. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 76%. Compared with the 49% average for public schools in Anchorage Municipality, the school's rate is higher.
Gladys Wood Elementary is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 46% of Alaska public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Gladys Wood Elementary falls in the middle 80% of Alaska schools: 35.4% actual against 27.1% predicted.
According to the American Community Survey, in Anchorage Municipality, median household income is about $103,284, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. A total of 99 public schools operate in Anchorage Municipality, serving about 41,241 students.
The closest public school to Gladys Wood Elementary is Sand Lake Elementary, about 0.7 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, Gladys Wood Elementary ranks 3rd on proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes Gladys Wood Elementary as City: Large.
The number of students dropped from 312 to 267 over 4 years.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Anchorage
- 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
Nearby schools
- Sand Lake Elementary0.7 mi · 367
- Dimond High School1.0 mi · 1,373
- Chinook Elementary1.1 mi · 365
- Campbell STEM Elementary1.2 mi · 323
- Kincaid Elementary1.2 mi · 322
- Northwood ABC1.4 mi · 255
Frequently asked questions
About Gladys Wood ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Gladys Wood Elementary?
Gladys Wood Elementary enrolls approximately 267 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Gladys Wood Elementary serve?
Gladys Wood Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Gladys Wood Elementary?
Approximately 14.2:1 students per teacher at Gladys Wood Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Gladys Wood Elementary?
Student demographics at Gladys Wood Elementary are roughly 19% White, 9% Hispanic, 6% Black, 10% Asian, 25% Two or more.
Is Gladys Wood Elementary public or private?
Gladys Wood Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Anchorage School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.