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Enrollment
384
Elementary
DISTRICT 206 · STATE 277
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 020039000539
Kalifornsky Beach Elementary
1049 E Poppy Lane, Soldotna, AK 99669 · (907) 260-1300 · Kenai Peninsula Borough
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL384 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 54% of Alaska public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Alaska public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 15.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
45%
173 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 65%
Community
2
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 | 9 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 52 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 42 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 49 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (52) is 6% larger than its 6th grade class (49).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
33.8%
AK avg 36.1% . -5.2pp since 2023
Math
42.3%
AK avg 34.6% . +2.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the AK STAR + Alaska Science, Alaska's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alaska schools, those numbers are about 36 and 35. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 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 | 33.8% | 42.3% |
| 2023-24 | 39.0% | 39.9% |
% 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
44.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.8%
based on AK schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% 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 Kalifornsky Beach Elementary
Kalifornsky Beach Elementary's state test result (44.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kalifornsky Beach Elementary this school | 384 | 45.1% | 44.4% |
| Swanson Elementary Palmer | 348 | 47.7% | N/A |
| Finger Lake Elementary Wasilla | 445 | 41.3% | 45.8% |
| Snowshoe Elementary Wasilla | 346 | 47.7% | 52.5% |
| Goose Bay Elementary Wasilla | 305 | 43.3% | N/A |
| DENA'INA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Wasilla | 396 | 46.0% | 45.8% |
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 Kalifornsky Beach Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alaska | In Kenai Peninsula Borough |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.4% | #58 of 134 | #7 of 13 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.3% | #67 of 150 ▲ 7 | #9 of 15 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.8% | #91 of 150 ▼ 22 | #10 of 15 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 384 | #27 of 169 | #2 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.5:1 | #50 of 125 | #8 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.3% | #91 of 125 | #5 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.1% | #68 of 142 | #8 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.5% | #109 of 115 | #10 of 10 |
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
384
+105 (+38%) vs 2020
-6% since 1990-91, when it was 410
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
was 10.3:1
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 | 384 | 24.7 | 15.5:1 | 45% (173) |
| 2023-24 | 412 | 27.7 | 14.9:1 | 37% (151) |
| 2022-23 | 412 | 25.5 | 16.1:1 | 42% (171) |
| 2020-21 | 279 | 27 | 10.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 398 | 25.5 | 15.6:1 | 31% (122) |
| 2015-16 | 422 | 25 | 16.9:1 | 26% (110) |
| 2010-11 | 435 | 27 | 16.1:1 | 32% (141) |
| 2000-01 | 445 | 26 | 17.1:1 | 26% (114) |
| 1990-91 | 410 | 24 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kalifornsky Beach Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (398 to 384); teachers down 3% (25.5 to 24.7).
About Kalifornsky Beach Elementary
Kalifornsky Beach Elementary is an elementary school in Soldotna, Alaska, reachable at (907) 260-1300. It reports enrollment of 384 students in pre-K through 6. That puts enrollment 39% above the 277-student average for elementary schools in Alaska.
Kenai Peninsula Borough School District is the local district for Kalifornsky Beach Elementary. It runs 42 schools with 8,510 students.
More than half of the students at Kalifornsky Beach Elementary are White (66%). Beyond that, enrollment is 14% multiracial, 10% Native American, and 8% Hispanic. In Kenai Peninsula Borough overall, about 79% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Kalifornsky Beach Elementary scores 53%.
Classroom staffing at Kalifornsky Beach Elementary totals 24.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 15.5:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Alaska is similar, at 15.3:1. Federal data show 45% of students (173) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in Kenai Peninsula Borough is close, at 43%.
Among Alaska public elementary schools, Kalifornsky Beach Elementary outscored 54%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Kalifornsky Beach Elementary would score about 37.8%. It scores 44.4%, 6.6 points above that figure.
In the wider Kenai Peninsula Borough area, median household income comes to about $80,538, roughly 30% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Kenai Peninsula Borough counts 42 public schools with about 8,510 students.
Of the public schools around it, Kalifornsky Beach Elementary is closest to Redoubt Elementary, about 1.4 miles away. There are 7 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: Kalifornsky Beach Elementary ranks 2nd of 7 nearby schools, at 44.4% versus a 35.0% average.
Under the NCES locale system, Kalifornsky Beach Elementary is Rural: Fringe.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 384, from 279 in 2020-21. The ratio was 10.3:1 in 2020-21 and 15.5:1 in 2024-25.
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Kenai Peninsula Borough at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
60,413
Census ACS
Median income
$80,538
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
42
8,510 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Kenai Peninsula Borough School District
- ConnectionsCombined · 1,188 students
- Soldotna High SchoolHigh · 695 students
- Kenai Central High SchoolHigh · 525 students
- Mt. View ElementaryElementary · 449 students
- Kenai Middle SchoolMiddle · 408 students
- Homer High SchoolHigh · 357 students
Other schools in Soldotna
- ConnectionsCombined · 1,188 students
- Soldotna High SchoolHigh · 695 students
- Skyview Middle SchoolMiddle · 355 students
- Redoubt ElementaryElementary · 321 students
- Soldotna ElementaryElementary · 266 students
- Soldotna Montessori Charter SchoolElementary · 164 students
Nearby schools
- Redoubt Elementary1.4 mi · 321
- Soldotna High School1.6 mi · 695
- Skyview Middle School2.4 mi · 355
- River City Academy2.4 mi · 79
- Soldotna Montessori Charter School2.4 mi · 164
- Soldotna Elementary2.5 mi · 266
Frequently asked questions
About Kalifornsky Beach ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Kalifornsky Beach Elementary?
Kalifornsky Beach Elementary enrolls approximately 384 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Kalifornsky Beach Elementary serve?
Kalifornsky Beach Elementary serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Kalifornsky Beach Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Kalifornsky Beach Elementary is approximately 15.5:1 (25 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Kalifornsky Beach Elementary?
Student demographics at Kalifornsky Beach Elementary are roughly 66% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 14% Two or more.
What district is Kalifornsky Beach Elementary in?
Kalifornsky Beach Elementary is part of Kenai Peninsula Borough School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.