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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Gruening Middle School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
797
Middle
DISTRICT 689 · STATE 399
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ANCHORAGE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 020018000505
Gruening Middle School
9601 Lee St, Eagle River, AK 99577 · (907) 742-3600 · Anchorage Municipality
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE31-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL797 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 88% of Alaska public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ·Beats expectations Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
- ·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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
28.3:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.8:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
156 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 247 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 262 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 288 | 36% |
Student demographics
56%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
44.7%
AK avg 36.1% . +8.5pp since 2023
Math
50.0%
AK avg 34.6% . -1.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the AK STAR + Alaska Science, Alaska's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alaska schools, those numbers are about 36 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
AK STAR + Alaska Science results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.7% | 50.0% |
| 2023-24 | 36.2% | 51.9% |
% 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
47.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.7%
based on AK schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 Gruening Middle School
Gruening Middle School's state test result (47.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gruening Middle School this school | 797 | 19.6% | 47.0% |
| Mirror Lake Middle School Chugiak | 571 | 21.9% | 45.6% |
| North Pole Middle School North Pole | 631 | 33.9% | 35.2% |
| Randy Smith Middle School Fairbanks | 413 | 29.3% | 41.9% |
| Thunder Mountain Middle School Juneau | 574 | 24.0% | N/A |
| Tanana Middle School Fairbanks | 523 | 34.8% | 30.4% |
Matched among Alaska middle 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 Gruening Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Alaska | In Anchorage Municipality |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #4 of 26 | #1 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #4 of 29 ▼ 1 | #2 of 9 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.7% | #5 of 29 ▲ 8 | #2 of 9 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 797 | #4 of 35 | #4 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 28.3:1 | #24 of 25 | #7 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.3% | #17 of 25 | #7 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.6% | #29 of 29 | #8 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +29.4% | #5 of 10 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle 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
797
+349 (+78%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 867
Student : Teacher
28.3:1
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 | 797 | 28.2 | 28.3:1 | 20% (156) |
| 2023-24 | 596 | 29.2 | 20.4:1 | 15% (91) |
| 2022-23 | 589 | 30.2 | 19.5:1 | 17% (101) |
| 2020-21 | 448 | 30 | 14.9:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 616 | 31.8 | 19.4:1 | 24% (147) |
| 2015-16 | 604 | 31 | 19.5:1 | 22% (131) |
| 2010-11 | 569 | 37 | 15.4:1 | 21% (118) |
| 2000-01 | 596 | 36 | 16.6:1 | 6% (36) |
| 1990-91 | 867 | 38 | 22.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Gruening Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 29% (616 to 797); teachers down 11% (31.8 to 28.2).
About Gruening Middle School
Located in Eagle River, Alaska, Gruening Middle School is a large middle school. The school reports 797 students in grades 6 through 8. The school's enrollment is 100% above the 399 average for middle schools in Alaska.
Anchorage School District has 40,587 students spread across 92 schools.
White students are the majority at Gruening Middle School, with 63% of enrollment. The school is also 14% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, 5% Native American, and 3% Black. The school's diversity index is 56%, meaning two students picked at random have a 56% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The count of teachers at Gruening Middle School is 28.2 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 28.3:1. That is higher than the 17.5:1 average for middle schools in Alaska. The school counts 156 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 20%. For comparison, public schools in Anchorage Municipality average 49%.
Measured against Alaska public middle schools, Gruening Middle School receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Gruening Middle School's average proficiency rate on state tests of 47.0% is within a point of the 46.7% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Census estimates describe Anchorage Municipality this way: the median household income is $103,284, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. In all, Anchorage Municipality has 99 public schools and roughly 41,241 students.
Homestead Elementary is the public school closest to Gruening Middle School, about 0.6 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On average proficiency, Gruening Middle School is 4th of 7 nearby schools with test data.
In the federal locale system, Gruening Middle School is coded Town: Fringe, for schools in a town close to an urbanized area.
The school's enrollment figures are 448 for 2020-21 and 797 for 2024-25. Differences this large can reflect a change in grade levels, a boundary change, or a merger. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 14.9:1 to 28.3:1.
Community posts for Gruening Middle School can cover enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. 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 Eagle River
- Eagle River High SchoolHigh · 771 students
- Ravenwood ElementaryElementary · 367 students
- Alpenglow ElementaryElementary · 278 students
- Alaska Middle College SchoolHigh · 272 students
- Eagle River ElementaryElementary · 266 students
- Homestead ElementaryElementary · 255 students
Nearby schools
- Homestead Elementary0.6 mi · 255
- Alpenglow Elementary0.9 mi · 278
- Eagle River High School1.0 mi · 771
- Eagle River Elementary1.1 mi · 266
- Eagle Academy Charter School1.4 mi · 205
- Ravenwood Elementary1.4 mi · 367
Frequently asked questions
About Gruening Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Gruening Middle School?
Gruening Middle School enrolls approximately 797 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Gruening Middle School serve?
Gruening Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Gruening Middle School have?
Gruening Middle School employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 28.3:1.
How diverse is Gruening Middle School?
Gruening Middle School reports a student body of 63% White, 11% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Who oversees Gruening Middle School?
Gruening Middle School is overseen by Anchorage School District in Anchorage Municipality.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.