Rabbit Creek Elementary

Rabbit Creek Elementary operates as a mid-sized K-5 school in Anchorage, Alaska, one of the schools within Anchorage School District. Current enrollment sits at 288 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

Anchorage School District runs 92 schools in total, collectively educating 40,587 students. Rabbit Creek Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Rabbit Creek Elementary reports that White students make up the majority at 66%; the rest reads as 13% multiracial, 9% Native American, 7% Hispanic, 4% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 57% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 21% of students at Rabbit Creek Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Anchorage Municipality runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Rabbit Creek Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.2%, the actual is 58.6%, a residual of +12.4 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Anchorage Municipality) shows that the typical household earns roughly $103,284 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Anchorage Municipality's 99 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,241 students), Rabbit Creek Elementary is one campus in the mix.

South Anchorage High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rabbit Creek Elementary.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rabbit Creek Elementary has shrank 40%, going from 478 students in 2018 to 288 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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