Huffman Elementary

Huffman Elementary is a moderately sized K-5 school in Anchorage, Alaska, run under Anchorage School District. The school instructs 268 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Huffman Elementary is one of 92 schools operated by Anchorage School District, a district that enrolls 40,587 students overall.

Demographically, Huffman Elementary shows that White students make up the majority at 67%. Beyond that, the school records 12% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 6% Native American, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 57% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Anchorage Municipality runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Huffman Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Alaska public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 47.5%; Huffman Elementary posts 66.2%, +18.6 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Anchorage Municipality indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,284 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Huffman Elementary is one of 99 public schools in Anchorage Municipality (combined enrollment of about 41,241 students).

The closest other public school is South Anchorage High School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Huffman Elementary.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 27%: 368 students in 2018 compared to 268 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.