Lake Otis Elementary

Lake Otis Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Anchorage, Alaska, run under Anchorage School District. Current enrollment sits at 264 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

Anchorage School District comprises 92 schools with combined enrollment of 40,587 students; Lake Otis Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Lake Otis Elementary logs that 23% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 20% Hispanic, 19% Native American, 16% White, 13% multiracial. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

Looking at school resources, Lake Otis Elementary lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.3:1, putting Lake Otis Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Anchorage Municipality (around 49%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Lake Otis Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.3%, the actual is 17.3%, a residual of -8.1 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Anchorage Municipality put median household earnings sit near $103,284, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Anchorage Municipality's 99 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,241 students), Lake Otis Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Wendler Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 39%: 435 students in 2018 compared to 264 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 7% to 1%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.