Mountain View Elementary

As a low-enrollment elementary-level community in Anchorage, Alaska, Mountain View Elementary serves 230 students from grades pre-K through 6, run under Anchorage School District.

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

On the student-mix side, Mountain View Elementary records that the largest single group is Pacific Islander at 26%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 17% multiracial, 16% Black, 12% Hispanic, 12% Native American.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. The state averages around 15.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 103% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Anchorage Municipality (around 49%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Mountain View Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.8%, the actual is 20.4%, a residual of +2.6 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Anchorage Municipality) reports that median household earnings sit near $103,284, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Anchorage Municipality runs 99 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,241 students), of which Mountain View Elementary is one.

Clark Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Mountain View Elementary's enrollment has decreased 20% since 2018, when it stood at 288 (now 230). Asian enrollment moved from 21% to 9% across the same window.

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