Enrollment
332
Elementary
DISTRICT 294 · STATE 277
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAIRBANKS NORTH STAR BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 020060000267
Hunter Elementary
1630 Gillam Way, Fairbanks, AK 99701 · (907) 456-5775 · Fairbanks North Star Borough
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL332 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.1:1 · STATE 15.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
216 students
DISTRICT 35% · 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 | 14 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 44 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 54 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (54).
Student demographics
79%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
17.9%
AK avg 36.1% . +3.5pp since 2023
Math
11.9%
AK avg 34.6% . +2.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the AK STAR + Alaska Science, Alaska's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 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 2 points.
AK STAR + Alaska Science results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 17.9% | 11.9% |
| 2023-24 | 14.4% | 9.8% |
% 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
18.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.9%
based on AK schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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 Hunter Elementary
Hunter Elementary's state test result (18.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter Elementary this school | 332 | 65.1% | 18.9% |
| Denali Elementary Fairbanks | 300 | 57.7% | 30.5% |
| Denali Montessori Elementary Anchorage | 361 | 74.0% | 42.6% |
| College Gate Elementary Anchorage | 363 | 65.0% | 24.6% |
| Gladys Wood Elementary Anchorage | 267 | 76.0% | 35.4% |
| Nunaka Valley Elementary Anchorage | 193 | 71.0% | 28.2% |
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 Hunter Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alaska | In Fairbanks North Star Borough |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.9% | #119 of 134 | #17 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 11.9% | #143 of 150 ▲ 2 | #18 of 18 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 17.9% | #132 of 150 ▲ 4 | #18 of 18 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 332 | #57 of 169 | #11 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.5:1 | #92 of 125 | #5 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 79.1% | #27 of 125 | #1 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.1% | #38 of 142 | #1 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.2% | #83 of 115 | #11 of 13 |
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
332
+32 (+11%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 472
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 332 | 19 | 17.5:1 | 65% (216) |
| 2023-24 | 378 | 22.4 | 16.9:1 | 71% (267) |
| 2022-23 | 363 | 21 | 17.3:1 | 70% (255) |
| 2020-21 | 300 | 21 | 14.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 374 | 21 | 17.8:1 | 63% (235) |
| 2015-16 | 333 | 17 | 19.6:1 | 68% (227) |
| 2010-11 | 387 | 21 | 18.4:1 | 71% (274) |
| 2000-01 | 353 | 21 | 16.8:1 | 57% (200) |
| 1990-91 | 472 | 25 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hunter Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (374 to 332); teachers down 10% (21 to 19).
About Hunter Elementary
Hunter Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Fairbanks, Alaska, one of the schools in Fairbanks North Star Borough School District. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 332 students on the rolls.
Fairbanks North Star Borough School District oversees Hunter Elementary and 33 other schools, with 12,214 students in total.
The largest racial or ethnic group at Hunter Elementary is White, with 27% of students. Other groups make up 27% Native American, 20% multiracial, 14% Hispanic, and 6% Black. Fairbanks North Star Borough as a whole is about 69% White, so the school's share is lower. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 79%.
A staff of 19 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 17.5:1. The gap from the 15.3:1 average for elementary schools in Alaska is 2.1 students per teacher. By family income, 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Fairbanks North Star Borough, the average eligibility rate is 33%.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Hunter Elementary is 11.9 points below its prediction. Actual: 18.9%. Predicted: 30.9%.
For the population of Fairbanks North Star Borough, median household income comes to about $88,267, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 3% of people live in poverty. Fairbanks North Star Borough's 39 public schools enroll about 23,777 students and include Hunter Elementary.
Measured in a straight line, Lathrop High School is about 0.2 miles from Hunter Elementary. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Hunter Elementary comes in 7th of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Small, or inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose from 300 to 332, an 11% increase. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 14.3:1 to 17.5:1.
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Fairbanks North Star Borough at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
95,460
Census ACS
Median income
$88,267
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
39
23,777 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fairbanks North Star Borough School District
- Lathrop High SchoolHigh · 788 students
- Fairbanks B.E.S.T.Combined · 784 students
- West Valley High SchoolHigh · 782 students
- North Pole High SchoolHigh · 695 students
- North Pole Middle SchoolMiddle · 631 students
- Tanana Middle SchoolMiddle · 523 students
Other schools in Fairbanks
- Interior Distance Education of Alaska (IDEA)Combined · 7,876 students
- Raven SchoolCombined · 3,687 students
- Lathrop High SchoolHigh · 788 students
- Fairbanks B.E.S.T.Combined · 784 students
- West Valley High SchoolHigh · 782 students
- Tanana Middle SchoolMiddle · 523 students
Other Hunter Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 7 states are named Hunter Elementary. Hunter Elementary is the 6th largest of the 8.
- Hunter ElementaryRaleigh, NC · 658 students
- Hunter ElementaryGreensboro, NC · 505 students
- Hunter ElementaryElizabethton, TN · 498 students
- HUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMERIDIAN, ID · 460 students
- Hunter Elementary SchoolBROWNSTOWN TWP, MI · 418 students
Nearby schools
- Lathrop High School0.2 mi · 788
- Ryan Middle School0.3 mi · 463
- Barnette Magnet School0.4 mi · 417
- Boreal Sun Charter School0.5 mi · 201
- Denali Elementary0.8 mi · 300
- Golden Heart Academy1.0 mi · 13
Frequently asked questions
About Hunter ElementaryHow many students attend Hunter Elementary?
Hunter Elementary enrolls approximately 332 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Hunter Elementary serve?
Hunter Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Hunter Elementary?
Approximately 17.5:1 students per teacher at Hunter Elementary.
How diverse is Hunter Elementary?
Hunter Elementary reports a student body of 27% White, 14% Hispanic, 6% Black, 2% Asian, 20% Two or more.
Is Hunter Elementary public or private?
Hunter Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Fairbanks North Star Borough School District.
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