AK STAR + Alaska Science, SY 2023-24
All grades, all students. % Advanced + Proficient.English Language Arts
48.2%
State avg 35.2%
District avg 13.3%
County avg 36.0%
Mathematics
35.5%
State avg 34.3%
District avg 35.5%
County avg 32.7%
Science
64.3%
State avg 41.8%
District avg 22.7%
County avg 46.4%
What this means: On the AK STAR + Alaska Science, Alaska's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 36 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 64 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Alaska schools, those numbers are about 35, 34, and 42.
What is AK STAR + Alaska Science?
AK STAR + Alaska Science is the statewide standardized test administered by Alaska public schools.
What does "% Advanced + Proficient" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 48.2% mean for English Language Arts at Interior Distance Education of Alaska (IDEA)?
It means about 48.2 percent of students tested at Interior Distance Education of Alaska (IDEA) performed at grade level or above on the AK STAR + Alaska Science English Language Arts test in 2023-24. The statewide average for Alaska that year was 35.2%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Alaska, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, AK STAR (ELA + Math grades 3-9) and Alaska Science (grades 5, 8, 10). School-level All Students rollup scraped from the per-school assessment-results pages on education.alaska.gov. Headline metric is the cumulative "Advanced + Proficient" rate (top 2 of 4 levels).
How often is it updated?
AK STAR + Alaska Science is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.
