Harborview Elementary

Located at 1255 Glacier Ave, in Juneau, Alaska, Harborview Elementary is an average-sized elementary school that hosts 349 students (grades pre-K through 6), run under Juneau Borough School District. That puts it 26% bigger than the typical public school in Alaska, which averages around 277 students.

Juneau Borough School District comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 5,481 students; Harborview Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Harborview Elementary lists that the largest single group is White at 28%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 28% multiracial, 21% Native American, 13% Hispanic, 7% Asian. By comparison, Juneau City and Borough as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 30% of students at Harborview Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Juneau City and Borough runs at roughly 20%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Juneau City and Borough put median household income runs about $101,661, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Juneau City and Borough's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,481 students), Harborview Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is HomeBRIDGE, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Harborview Elementary.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Harborview Elementary has fell 3%, going from 360 students in 2018 to 349 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 8% to 13%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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