Ocean View Elementary

As a moderately sized elementary campus in Anchorage, Alaska, Ocean View Elementary instructs 285 students from grades pre-K through 6, operated by Anchorage School District.

Across the 92 schools in Anchorage School District (40,587 students total), Ocean View Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Ocean View Elementary shows that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 14% Native American, 13% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 7% Pacific Islander. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.3:1 average. Roughly 45% of students at Ocean View Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Ocean View Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 51.0%.

In the broader 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Anchorage Municipality's 99 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,241 students), Ocean View Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Bowman Elementary, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ocean View Elementary.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Looking at the recent track record. Ocean View Elementary's enrollment has contracted 37% since 2018, when it stood at 454 (now 285). White enrollment moved from 51% to 46% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

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