Richard Johnson Elementary

Richard Johnson Elementary is an elementary campus of low-enrollment scale in Metlakatla, Alaska, one of the schools within Annette Island School District, educateing 130 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 53% smaller than the typical public school in Alaska, which averages around 277 students.

Annette Island School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 301 students. Richard Johnson Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Richard Johnson Elementary logs that 97% of students identify as Native American, making the school strongly Native American-majority.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.3:1 average. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Richard Johnson Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.1%; this one delivers 23.3%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area) shows that median household income runs about $61,156, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Richard Johnson Elementary is one of 20 public schools in Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area (combined enrollment of about 1,441 students).

Charles R. Leask Sr. Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Richard Johnson Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 26%: 176 students in 2018 compared to 130 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 8.2:1 today.

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