Enrollment
264
Elementary
DISTRICT 316 · STATE 277
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ANCHORAGE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 020018000086
Lake Otis Elementary
3331 Lake Otis Pkwy, Anchorage, AK 99508 · (907) 742-7400 · Anchorage Municipality
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL264 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 15.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
214 students
DISTRICT 53% · 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 | 16 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 38 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 45 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 38 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 46 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 35 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 46 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (38) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (46).
Student demographics
82%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 78% · 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
12.6%
AK avg 36.1% . +0.6pp since 2023
Math
13.5%
AK avg 34.6% . -1.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the AK STAR + Alaska Science, Alaska's statewide test, about 13 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alaska schools, those numbers are about 36 and 35. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
AK STAR + Alaska Science results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 12.6% | 13.5% |
| 2023-24 | 12.0% | 15.1% |
% 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
17.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.3%
based on AK schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% 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 Lake Otis Elementary
Lake Otis Elementary's state test result (17.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Otis Elementary this school | 264 | 81.1% | 17.3% |
| Russian Jack Elementary Anchorage | 254 | 92.9% | 23.0% |
| Taku Elementary Anchorage | 258 | 76.0% | 29.2% |
| Susitna Elementary Anchorage | 394 | 69.3% | 29.2% |
| Klatt Elementary Anchorage | 294 | 62.9% | 38.3% |
| Spring Hill Elementary Anchorage | 291 | 86.6% | 19.5% |
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 Lake Otis Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alaska | In Anchorage Municipality |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.3% | #124 of 134 | #48 of 55 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.5% | #139 of 150 ▼ 2 | #55 of 62 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 12.6% | #142 of 150 ▼ 1 | #57 of 62 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 264 | #98 of 169 | #45 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #11 of 125 | #1 of 56 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 82.1% | #17 of 125 | #17 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.1% | #22 of 142 | #16 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -39.3% | #9 of 115 | #7 of 53 |
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
264
-92 (-26%) vs 2020
-53% since 1990-91, when it was 566
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 15.5:1
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 | 264 | 20.3 | 13.0:1 | 81% (214) |
| 2023-24 | 337 | 22.9 | 14.8:1 | 80% (270) |
| 2022-23 | 302 | 23 | 13.1:1 | 72% (217) |
| 2020-21 | 356 | 23 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 435 | 27.8 | 15.6:1 | 66% (288) |
| 2015-16 | 472 | 29 | 16.3:1 | 69% (324) |
| 2010-11 | 403 | 27 | 14.9:1 | 72% (290) |
| 2000-01 | 486 | 26 | 18.7:1 | 31% (151) |
| 1990-91 | 566 | 24 | 23.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lake Otis Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 39% (435 to 264); teachers down 27% (27.8 to 20.3).
About Lake Otis Elementary
Lake Otis Elementary sits in Anchorage, Alaska, and is classified as an elementary school. In all, 264 students attend the school in pre-K through 6.
Anchorage School District runs 92 schools with a combined 40,587 students. Lake Otis Elementary is one of them.
The largest racial or ethnic group at Lake Otis Elementary is Asian, with 23% of students. Enrollment also includes 20% Hispanic, 19% Native American, 16% White, and 13% multiracial. Among people living in Anchorage Municipality, the Asian share is about 10%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 82%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lake Otis Elementary is 13.0:1, based on 20.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Alaska is 15.3:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. Lake Otis Elementary counts 81% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Anchorage Municipality is 49%.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Lake Otis Elementary is 8.1 points below its prediction. Actual: 17.3%. Predicted: 25.3%.
American Community Survey estimates for Anchorage Municipality show that the median household earns about $103,284 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Anchorage Municipality has 99 public schools with about 41,241 students, including Lake Otis Elementary.
Of the public schools around it, Lake Otis Elementary is closest to Wendler Middle School, about 0.2 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Lake Otis Elementary is 4th of 6 nearby schools with test data.
Lake Otis Elementary is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels City: Large.
In 2020-21, Lake Otis Elementary enrolled 356 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 264. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 15.5:1; by 2024-25 it was 13.0:1.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at Lake Otis Elementary. You can also rate the school on this page.
Anchorage Municipality at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
288,976
Census ACS
Median income
$103,284
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
99
41,241 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Anchorage School District
- West High SchoolHigh · 1,702 students
- Bettye Davis East Anchorage High SchoolHigh · 1,636 students
- Service High SchoolHigh · 1,518 students
- Bartlett High SchoolCombined · 1,431 students
- Dimond High SchoolHigh · 1,373 students
- South Anchorage High SchoolHigh · 1,239 students
Other schools in Anchorage
- West High SchoolHigh · 1,702 students
- Bettye Davis East Anchorage High SchoolHigh · 1,636 students
- Service High SchoolHigh · 1,518 students
- Bartlett High SchoolCombined · 1,431 students
- Dimond High SchoolHigh · 1,373 students
- South Anchorage High SchoolHigh · 1,239 students
Nearby schools
- Wendler Middle School0.2 mi · 602
- Martin Luther King Jr. Technical High School0.2 mi · 124
- Alaska Middle College School0.2 mi · 272
- McLaughlin Secondary School0.3 mi · 77
- Rogers Park Elementary0.6 mi · 354
- Whaley School1.0 mi · 298
Frequently asked questions
About Lake Otis ElementaryHow large is Lake Otis Elementary?
Lake Otis Elementary enrolls approximately 264 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Lake Otis Elementary serve?
Lake Otis Elementary serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lake Otis Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lake Otis Elementary is approximately 13.0:1 (20 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Lake Otis Elementary?
At Lake Otis Elementary, the student body is approximately 16% White, 20% Hispanic, 1% Black, 23% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Who oversees Lake Otis Elementary?
Lake Otis Elementary is overseen by Anchorage School District in Anchorage Municipality.
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