Inlet View Elementary

As a compact elementary-level community in Anchorage, Alaska, Inlet View Elementary serves 190 students from grades pre-K through 6, one of the schools within Anchorage School District. That puts it 31% leaner than the typical public school in Alaska, which averages around 277 students.

Within Anchorage School District, which oversees 92 schools and 40,587 students, Inlet View Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Inlet View Elementary shows that 50% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 15% multiracial, 14% Native American, 8% Hispanic, 6% Pacific Islander.

On the income-and-resources front, Inlet View Elementary reports 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.3:1, putting Inlet View Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Anchorage Municipality runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Inlet View Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.1%, the actual is 53.0%, a residual of +8.8 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Anchorage Municipality put median household earnings sit near $103,284, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Inlet View Elementary is one of 99 public schools in Anchorage Municipality (combined enrollment of about 41,241 students).

Nearest neighbor: AKChoice K-12 Learning, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Inlet View Elementary has decreased 21%, going from 242 students in 2018 to 190 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 56% to 50% across the same window.

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