Rilke Schule Charter School

Rilke Schule Charter School operates as a substantial elementary campus in Anchorage, Alaska, one of the schools within Anchorage School District. Current enrollment sits at 485 students spanning grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 75% bigger than the state mean of about 277.

Anchorage School District runs 92 schools in total, collectively educating 40,587 students. Rilke Schule Charter School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Rilke Schule Charter School shows that 77% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 12% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% Native American, 2% Asian. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.3:1, putting Rilke Schule Charter School higher than the state norm the norm.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Anchorage Municipality put median household earnings sit near $103,284, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Rilke Schule Charter School is one of 99 public schools in Anchorage Municipality (combined enrollment of about 41,241 students).

The closest other public school is Polaris K-12 School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rilke Schule Charter School.

Rilke Schule Charter School operates from an inner-city location. Rilke Schule Charter School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rilke Schule Charter School has declined 3%, going from 501 students in 2018 to 485 in 2025.

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