Meade River School

As an intimate multi-level school in Atqasuk, Alaska, Meade River School teaches 86 students from grades pre-K through 12, one of the schools within North Slope Borough School District. By comparison, Alaska's public schools average about 192 students each, so Meade River School sits 55% leaner than that benchmark.

North Slope Borough School District runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 1,853 students. Meade River School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Meade River School shows that 92% of students identify as Native American, making the school strongly Native American-majority. Other groups include 7% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Meade River School lists 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 27.0:1 average. About 49% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, North Slope Borough runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, census data for North Slope Borough shows the typical household earns roughly $95,694 per year, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across North Slope Borough's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,853 students), Meade River School is one campus in the mix.

Meade River School operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 16%: 74 students in 2018 compared to 86 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Meade River School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.