Mt. Eccles Elementary

Mt. Eccles Elementary operates as an intimate K-5 school in Cordova, Alaska, operated by Cordova City School District. Current enrollment sits at 234 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

Cordova City School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 361 students. Mt. Eccles Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Mt. Eccles Elementary records that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 29% Native American, 16% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.

On the income-and-resources front, Mt. Eccles Elementary lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.3:1 average. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Chugach Census Area runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mt. Eccles Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Alaska public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 24.1%; Mt. Eccles Elementary posts 47.0%, +22.9 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, Chugach Census Area reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,509 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Chugach Census Area's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,034 students), Mt. Eccles Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Cordova Jr/Sr High School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Mt. Eccles Elementary.

Mt. Eccles Elementary operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 29%: 181 students in 2018 compared to 234 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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