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Enrollment
705
High
DISTRICT 468 · STATE 373
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MATANUSKA-SUSITNA BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 020051000731
Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School
2472 N Seward Meridian Pkwy, Wasilla, AK 99654 · (907) 352-0400 · Matanuska-Susitna Borough
GRADES 09–12HIGH23-SUBURBCAREER AND TECHNICAL SCHOOL705 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 87% of Alaska public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Alaska public high schools
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 25.4:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
176 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 203 | 29% |
| Grade 10 | 197 | 28% |
| Grade 11 | 169 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 136 | 19% |
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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
40.0%
AK avg 36.1% . -3.2pp since 2023
Math
26.1%
AK avg 34.6% . -16.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the AK STAR + Alaska Science, Alaska's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alaska schools, those numbers are about 36 and 35. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 16 points.
AK STAR + Alaska Science results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 26.1% |
| 2023-24 | 43.2% | 42.2% |
% 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
40.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.8%
based on AK schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School
Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School's state test result (40.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School this school | 705 | 25.0% | 40.9% |
| North Pole High School North Pole | 695 | 22.4% | 26.6% |
| Soldotna High School Soldotna | 695 | 27.5% | 28.6% |
| Colony High School Palmer | 1,046 | 31.3% | 36.2% |
| Chugiak High School Chugiak | 928 | 18.3% | 36.5% |
| Wasilla High School Wasilla | 816 | 33.3% | 30.6% |
Matched among Alaska high 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 Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Alaska | In Matanuska-Susitna Borough |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.9% | #8 of 39 | #1 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.1% | #12 of 43 ▼ 7 | #2 of 7 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #17 of 44 ▼ 6 | #2 of 7 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 705 | #13 of 72 | #3 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #13 of 38 | #6 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.9% | #35 of 38 | #8 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.0% | #35 of 45 | #8 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.5% | #6 of 7 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high 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
705
-48 (-6%) vs 2020
+67% since 2010-11, when it was 422
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
was 18.8:1
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 | 705 | 42.2 | 16.7:1 | 25% (176) |
| 2023-24 | 723 | 44.2 | 16.4:1 | 23% (166) |
| 2022-23 | 743 | 42.4 | 17.5:1 | 24% (177) |
| 2020-21 | 753 | 40 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 656 | 36.6 | 17.9:1 | 24% (160) |
| 2015-16 | 542 | 29 | 18.7:1 | 23% (127) |
| 2010-11 | 422 | 33 | 12.8:1 | 29% (124) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 7% (656 to 705); teachers up 15% (36.6 to 42.2).
About Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School
Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School serves students in Wasilla, Alaska, as a large high school. The school serves 705 students in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25. For comparison, high schools in Alaska average about 373 students.
Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School is run by Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District, whose 49 schools enroll 19,495 students.
Roughly 74% of students at Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School are White. Other reported shares: 11% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, and 5% Native American. That is close to the 77% White share among all Matanuska-Susitna Borough residents. The school's diversity index is 43%, meaning two students picked at random have a 43% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school has about 16.7 students per teacher and 42.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. That matches the 17.0:1 average for high schools in Alaska fairly closely. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 25%. That is lower than the 45% average for public schools in Matanuska-Susitna Borough.
Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School is graded A by allk12, scoring above 87% of Alaska public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Compared with Alaska schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School's results are 3.9 points below predicted: 40.9% against 44.8%.
In the county around the school, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, the median household income is $94,031, about 24% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Matanuska-Susitna Borough is home to 49 public schools and about 19,495 public school students.
Nearest public school: Teeland Middle School, about 0.3 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School ranks 4th of 5 nearby schools, at 40.9% versus a 51.4% average.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Small. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment dropped 6% from its 2020-21 level of 753. Its ratio of students to teachers was 18.8:1 in 2020-21, and 16.7:1 in 2024-25.
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Matanuska-Susitna Borough at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
112,988
Census ACS
Median income
$94,031
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
49
19,495 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District
- Mat-Su Central SchoolCombined · 2,780 students
- Colony High SchoolHigh · 1,046 students
- Wasilla High SchoolHigh · 816 students
- Colony Middle SchoolElementary · 771 students
- Teeland Middle SchoolElementary · 643 students
- Palmer High SchoolHigh · 616 students
Other schools in Wasilla
- Mat-Su Central SchoolCombined · 2,780 students
- Wasilla High SchoolHigh · 816 students
- Teeland Middle SchoolElementary · 643 students
- Twindly Bridge Charter SchoolCombined · 601 students
- Wasilla Middle SchoolMiddle · 584 students
- John Shaw ElementaryElementary · 507 students
Nearby schools
- Teeland Middle School0.3 mi · 643
- Fronteras Charter School0.3 mi · 336
- Mat-Su Day School0.5 mi · 70
- Larson Elementary0.7 mi · 319
- John Shaw Elementary1.3 mi · 507
- Cottonwood Creek Elementary1.4 mi · 422
Frequently asked questions
About Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High SchoolHow large is Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School?
Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School enrolls approximately 705 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School serve?
Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School is approximately 16.7:1 (42 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School?
Student demographics at Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School are roughly 74% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School in?
Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School is part of Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District.
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