North Star College

Students in Fairbanks, Alaska, attend North Star College, a small high school. Grades offered run from 11 through 12, with 197 students enrolled. The average among high schools in Alaska is roughly 373 students; this school is 47% smaller than that.

North Star College sits within Fairbanks North Star Borough School District, which has 34 schools and 12,214 students.

Roughly 69% of students at North Star College are White. The rest of enrollment is 13% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, and 3% Asian. That is close to the 69% White share among all Fairbanks North Star Borough residents. The school's diversity index is 49%, meaning two students picked at random have a 49% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

Fairbanks North Star Borough has these Census figures: the median household income is $88,267, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 33% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 3%. Fairbanks North Star Borough is home to 39 public schools and about 23,777 public school students.

West Valley High School is the public school closest to North Star College, about 0.3 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8.

NCES describes the area around North Star College as City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.

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