Peterson Elementary

As a small elementary school in Kodiak, Alaska, Peterson Elementary teaches 206 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Kodiak Island Borough School District. Enrollment runs roughly 26% leaner than the state mean of about 277.

Within Kodiak Island Borough School District, which oversees 13 schools and 2,132 students, Peterson Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Peterson Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). The remainder is composed of 7% Native American, 4% Asian. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 28% of students at Peterson Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Kodiak Island Borough runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Peterson Elementary sits in the top 10% of Alaska schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 43.9%; actual is 63.2%, +19.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, census data for Kodiak Island Borough shows the typical household earns roughly $86,250 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Kodiak Island Borough's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,122 students), Peterson Elementary is one campus in the mix.

AKTEACH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Peterson Elementary.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Peterson Elementary has ticked down 16%, going from 246 students in 2018 to 206 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 7% to 0%.

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