Qugcuun Memorial School

Qugcuun Memorial School is one of the one-room-style multi-level schools in Oscarville, Alaska, operated by Lower Kuskokwim School District, with 20 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 12. By comparison, Alaska's public schools average about 192 students each, so Qugcuun Memorial School sits 90% below that benchmark.

Lower Kuskokwim School District runs 29 schools in total, collectively educating 3,866 students. Qugcuun Memorial School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Qugcuun Memorial School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Native American (95%); the rest comes out to 5% Asian.

On the resource side, On paper, Qugcuun Memorial School has 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 27.0:1, putting Qugcuun Memorial School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Around the school, census data for Bethel Census Area shows the typical household earns roughly $73,996 per year, 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 22%. Qugcuun Memorial School is one of 41 public schools in Bethel Census Area (combined enrollment of about 4,697 students).

Z. John Williams Memorial School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Qugcuun Memorial School has edged up 33%, going from 15 students in 2018 to 20 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 0% to 5% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 today.

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