Kokhanok School

Located at School Rd, in Kokhanok, Alaska, Kokhanok School is an one-room-style combined-grade school that caters to 40 students (grades pre-K through 12), one of the schools within Lake and Peninsula Borough School District. Compared to the state average of about 192 students per school, that is 79% leaner than typical.

Within Lake and Peninsula Borough School District, which oversees 11 schools and 320 students, Kokhanok School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Kokhanok School records that 93% of students identify as Native American, making the school strongly Native American-majority; the rest looks like 8% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.0:1. The state averages around 27.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 105% of students at Kokhanok School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Lake and Peninsula Borough (around 90%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

In the broader community, Lake and Peninsula Borough reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,625 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Kokhanok School is one of 12 public schools in Lake and Peninsula Borough (combined enrollment of about 312 students).

Newhalen School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 20.0 miles from this campus.

Kokhanok School operates from a countryside location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 21%: 33 students in 2018 compared to 40 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 6.5:1 in 2018 to 8.0:1 in 2025.

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