Enrollment
268
Elementary
DISTRICT 316 · STATE 277
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ANCHORAGE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 020018000082
Huffman Elementary
12000 Lorraine St, Anchorage, AK 99516 · (907) 742-5650 · Anchorage Municipality
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL268 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.0:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 15.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
46 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 41 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 32 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 36 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (50).
Student demographics
52%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
59.0%
AK avg 36.1% . +2.9pp since 2023
Math
67.6%
AK avg 34.6% . +10.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the AK STAR + Alaska Science, Alaska's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
AK STAR + Alaska Science results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.0% | 67.6% |
| 2023-24 | 56.1% | 57.6% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of AK schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
66.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.5%
based on AK schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 48% typical for Alaska schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Alaska's top 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 Huffman Elementary
Huffman Elementary's state test result (66.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huffman Elementary this school | 268 | 17.2% | 66.2% |
| Rabbit Creek Elementary Anchorage | 288 | 20.8% | 58.6% |
| Chugach Optional Elementary Anchorage | 275 | 11.6% | 67.8% |
| Birchwood ABC Elementary Eagle River | 246 | 24.8% | 58.9% |
| Bear Valley Elementary Anchorage | 316 | 8.5% | 68.4% |
| Ravenwood Elementary Eagle River | 367 | 11.4% | 68.3% |
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 Huffman Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alaska | In Anchorage Municipality |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.2% | #5 of 134 | #4 of 55 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.6% | #10 of 150 ▲ 10 | #4 of 62 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #14 of 150 ▼ 1 | #8 of 62 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 268 | #93 of 169 | #42 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.0:1 | #85 of 125 | #37 of 56 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.2% | #94 of 125 | #46 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 17.2% | #131 of 142 | #50 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.2% | #39 of 115 | #24 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
268
-48 (-15%) vs 2020
-60% since 1990-91, when it was 664
Student : Teacher
17.0:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 268 | 15.8 | 17.0:1 | 17% (46) |
| 2023-24 | 325 | 17.9 | 18.1:1 | 14% (45) |
| 2022-23 | 357 | 20.2 | 17.7:1 | 11% (40) |
| 2020-21 | 316 | 24 | 13.2:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 368 | 24.5 | 15.0:1 | 14% (53) |
| 2015-16 | 376 | 26 | 14.5:1 | 12% (44) |
| 2010-11 | 379 | 21 | 18.1:1 | 13% (49) |
| 2000-01 | 494 | 23 | 21.5:1 | 3% (13) |
| 1990-91 | 664 | 29 | 22.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Huffman Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 27% (368 to 268); teachers down 35% (24.5 to 15.8).
About Huffman Elementary
Huffman Elementary is a public elementary school run by Anchorage School District in Anchorage, Alaska. The school covers pre-K through 6 and reported 268 students in 2024-25.
Anchorage School District operates 92 schools. Combined enrollment is 40,587 students.
The student body at Huffman Elementary is 67% White. Beyond that, enrollment is 12% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 6% Native American, and 5% Asian. The White share of the county population is lower, at 57%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 52, compared with 70 nationally.
Huffman Elementary lists 15.8 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 17.0 students per teacher. The school's 17.0:1 compares with an average of 15.3:1 for elementary schools in Alaska. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 17% of the student body. The gap from the 49% average for public schools in Anchorage Municipality is 32 points.
Huffman Elementary is a top-10% school in Alaska on BeatsExpectations, beating its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results of 47.5% with an actual 66.2%.
Looking at the county, Anchorage Municipality, the median household earns about $103,284 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Anchorage Municipality has 99 public schools with about 41,241 students, including Huffman Elementary.
The closest school to Huffman Elementary is South Anchorage High School, located about 0.8 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Huffman Elementary ranks 1st on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 268, from 316 in 2020-21. The ratio of students to teachers went from 13.2:1 to 17.0:1 over the same years.
On allk12, people connected to Huffman Elementary can post about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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
Other Huffman Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Huffman Elementary. Huffman Elementary is the 3rd largest of the 4.
- Huffman Elementary SchoolHUFFMAN, TX · 915 students
- Huffman Elementary SchoolPLANO, TX · 519 students
- Huffman Elementary SchoolCahokia, IL · 268 students
Nearby schools
- South Anchorage High School0.8 mi · 1,239
- Bowman Elementary1.3 mi · 536
- Rabbit Creek Elementary1.3 mi · 288
- O'Malley Elementary1.5 mi · 350
- Hanshew Middle School1.5 mi · 822
- Spring Hill Elementary1.7 mi · 291
Frequently asked questions
About Huffman ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Huffman Elementary?
Huffman Elementary enrolls approximately 268 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Huffman Elementary serve?
Huffman Elementary serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Huffman Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Huffman Elementary is approximately 17.0:1 (16 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Huffman Elementary?
Student demographics at Huffman Elementary are roughly 67% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Black, 5% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Who oversees Huffman Elementary?
Huffman Elementary is overseen by Anchorage School District in Anchorage Municipality.
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