Enrollment
290
Elementary
DISTRICT 272 · STATE 277
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JUNEAU BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 020021000265
KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2901 Riverside Dr, Juneau, AK 99801 · (907) 796-5700 · Juneau City and Borough
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY33-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL290 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 15.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
79 students
DISTRICT 23% · 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 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 33 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 31 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 38 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 18% |
| Grade 6 | 38 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (33) is 13% smaller than its 6th grade class (38).
Student demographics
79%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→Thunder Mountain Middle School
Based on grade levels within Juneau Borough School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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AK STAR + Alaska Science 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientEnglish Language Arts
28.8%
AK avg 36.1% . +4.7pp since 2023
Math
21.7%
AK avg 34.6% . -0.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the AK STAR + Alaska Science, Alaska's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
AK STAR + Alaska Science results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.8% | 21.7% |
| 2023-24 | 24.1% | 22.4% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of AK schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
28.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.0%
based on AK schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 44% typical for Alaska schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (28.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 290 | 27.2% | 28.1% |
| SIT EETI SHAANAX - GLACIER VALLEY SCHOOL Juneau | 322 | 31.1% | 39.5% |
| Sand Lake Elementary Anchorage | 367 | 32.4% | 48.5% |
| Harborview Elementary Juneau | 349 | 30.1% | 35.6% |
| Trailside Elementary Anchorage | 364 | 23.4% | 53.9% |
| Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary Sitka | 275 | 36.7% | 52.8% |
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 KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alaska | In Juneau City and Borough |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.1% | #102 of 134 | #7 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.7% | #124 of 150 ▼ 5 | #7 of 7 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.8% | #103 of 150 ▲ 15 | #7 of 7 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 290 | #83 of 169 | #5 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.1:1 | #63 of 125 | #4 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 78.7% | #29 of 125 | #1 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.2% | #113 of 142 | #4 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.1% | #102 of 115 | #4 of 6 |
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
290
+35 (+14%) vs 2020
-36% since 2000-01, when it was 452
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
was 11.1:1
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 | 290 | 18 | 16.1:1 | 27% (79) |
| 2023-24 | 262 | 19.7 | 13.3:1 | 30% (79) |
| 2022-23 | 268 | 21.4 | 12.5:1 | 46% (122) |
| 2020-21 | 255 | 23 | 11.1:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 312 | 23.7 | 13.2:1 | 50% (156) |
| 2015-16 | 317 | 20 | 15.8:1 | 45% (143) |
| 2010-11 | 334 | 26 | 12.8:1 | 43% (144) |
| 2000-01 | 452 | 30 | 15.1:1 | 22% (101) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (312 to 290); teachers down 24% (23.7 to 18).
About KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students in Juneau, Alaska, as a mid-sized elementary school. Its enrollment is 290 students, spread over pre-K through 6.
Juneau Borough School District, which runs KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, has 16 schools and 5,481 students.
No group is above 50% at KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL; the largest is multiracial, at 31%. The rest of enrollment is 25% White, 14% Native American, 13% Asian, and 12% Hispanic. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 79%.
KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a ratio of 16.1 students per teacher, from 18 full-time-equivalent teachers. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Alaska is 15.3:1. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 27% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 44.0% for KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 28.1%. The 15.9-point gap ranks in the bottom 10% of Alaska schools.
In the surrounding county, Juneau City and Borough, median household income comes to about $101,661, about 41% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county's public schools total 16, with about 5,481 students.
Thunder Mountain Middle School is about 0.3 miles from KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes 7 other public schools. On state test proficiency, KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th in a group of 4 nearby schools.
Its location is classified as Town: Remote by the National Center for Education Statistics.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 290, from 255 in 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 16.1 students per teacher, compared with 11.1 in 2020-21.
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Juneau City and Borough at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
31,794
Census ACS
Median income
$101,661
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
16
5,481 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Juneau Borough School District
- Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at KaleHigh · 1,018 students
- Thunder Mountain High SchoolHigh · 589 students
- Thunder Mountain Middle SchoolMiddle · 574 students
- Dzantik'i Heeni Middle SchoolMiddle · 437 students
- Floyd Dryden Middle SchoolMiddle · 370 students
- Auke Bay ElementaryElementary · 353 students
Other schools in Juneau
- Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at KaleHigh · 1,018 students
- Thunder Mountain High SchoolHigh · 589 students
- Thunder Mountain Middle SchoolMiddle · 574 students
- Dzantik'i Heeni Middle SchoolMiddle · 437 students
- Floyd Dryden Middle SchoolMiddle · 370 students
- Auke Bay ElementaryElementary · 353 students
Nearby schools
- Thunder Mountain Middle School0.3 mi · 574
- Thunder Mountain High School0.3 mi · 589
- SIT EETI SHAANAX - GLACIER VALLEY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 322
- Floyd Dryden Middle School1.2 mi · 370
- Mendenhall River Community School1.9 mi · 308
- Auke Bay Elementary2.3 mi · 353
Frequently asked questions
About KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 290 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-06.
How many teachers does KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 18 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.1:1.
What is the student diversity at KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 25% White, 12% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 31% Two or more.
Is KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
KAX_DIG_OOWU HEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by Juneau Borough School District.
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