Lake Hood Elementary

Lake Hood Elementary is an elementary-level community of compact scale in Anchorage, Alaska, overseen by Anchorage School District, teacheing 185 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 33% below the state mean of about 277.

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

On the student-mix side, Lake Hood Elementary records that 24% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 19% White, 19% multiracial, 16% Native American, 9% Hispanic. By comparison, Anchorage Municipality as a whole is about 10% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.3:1 average. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lake Hood Elementary is in the bottom 10% of Alaska public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.1%; Lake Hood Elementary posts 15.8%, -19.2 points below that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Anchorage Municipality shows median household earnings sit near $103,284, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Anchorage Municipality's 99 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,241 students), Lake Hood Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Turnagain Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Lake Hood Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lake Hood Elementary has ticked down 49%, going from 364 students in 2018 to 185 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 29% to 19% over that span.

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