Muldoon Elementary

Muldoon Elementary is one of the high-enrollment elementary-level communitys in Anchorage, Alaska, overseen by Anchorage School District, with 417 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 51% bigger than the typical public school in Alaska, which averages around 277 students.

Muldoon Elementary is one of 92 schools operated by Anchorage School District, a district that caters to 40,587 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Muldoon Elementary records that the most-represented group is Asian (32%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 17% multiracial, 14% Native American, 11% Pacific Islander, 11% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 10% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.3:1 average. An estimated 104% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Anchorage Municipality runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Anchorage Municipality indicate median household earnings sit near $103,284, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Anchorage Municipality's 99 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,241 students), Muldoon Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Creekside Park Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 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.

Trend over the last 7 years. Muldoon Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 454 (now 417). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.