Enrollment
254
Elementary
DISTRICT 316 · STATE 277
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ANCHORAGE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 020018000107
Russian Jack Elementary
4300 E 20th Ave, Anchorage, AK 99508 · (907) 742-1300 · Anchorage Municipality
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL254 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 26% of Alaska public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Alaska public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 15.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
236 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 17 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 38 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 40 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 42 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 35 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 39 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (38) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (39).
Student demographics
83%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
AK STAR + Alaska Science 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientEnglish Language Arts
23.9%
AK avg 36.1% . +6.3pp since 2023
Math
19.7%
AK avg 34.6% . +0.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the AK STAR + Alaska Science, Alaska's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alaska schools, those numbers are about 36 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
AK STAR + Alaska Science results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.9% | 19.7% |
| 2023-24 | 17.6% | 19.2% |
% Advanced + Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: AK STAR + Alaska Science. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
23.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
21.2%
based on AK schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% typical for Alaska schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Alaska's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Russian Jack Elementary
Russian Jack Elementary's state test result (23.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russian Jack Elementary this school | 254 | 92.9% | 23.0% |
| Lake Otis Elementary Anchorage | 264 | 81.1% | 17.3% |
| Spring Hill Elementary Anchorage | 291 | 86.6% | 19.5% |
| Ptarmigan Elementary Anchorage | 392 | 83.2% | 19.1% |
| Taku Elementary Anchorage | 258 | 76.0% | 29.2% |
| Northwood ABC Anchorage | 255 | 79.6% | 26.4% |
Matched among Alaska elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Russian Jack Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alaska | In Anchorage Municipality |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.0% | #112 of 134 | #40 of 55 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.7% | #126 of 150 ▼ 3 | #44 of 62 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.9% | #115 of 150 ▲ 16 | #41 of 62 ▲ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 254 | #106 of 169 | #50 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #27 of 125 | #8 of 56 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 83.3% | #10 of 125 | #10 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.9% | #13 of 142 | #10 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.8% | #24 of 115 | #14 of 53 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
254
-32 (-11%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 291
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 9.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 254 | 17.6 | 14.4:1 | 93% (236) |
| 2023-24 | 278 | 19 | 14.6:1 | 94% (261) |
| 2022-23 | 252 | 16 | 15.7:1 | 87% (219) |
| 2020-21 | 286 | 29 | 9.9:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 367 | 34.2 | 10.7:1 | 86% (315) |
| 2015-16 | 392 | 35 | 11.2:1 | 90% (354) |
| 2010-11 | 386 | 35 | 11.0:1 | 79% (306) |
| 2000-01 | 347 | 29 | 12.0:1 | 64% (223) |
| 1990-91 | 291 | 23 | 12.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Russian Jack Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 31% (367 to 254); teachers down 49% (34.2 to 17.6).
About Russian Jack Elementary
Russian Jack Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school with its address in Anchorage, Alaska. It reported 254 students in pre-K through 6 in 2024-25.
A total of 92 schools make up Anchorage School District, with 40,587 students enrolled.
No group is above 50% at Russian Jack Elementary; the largest is Hispanic, at 22%. The rest of enrollment is 19% Asian, 17% multiracial, 16% Pacific Islander, and 13% Native American. Among all residents of Anchorage Municipality, the Hispanic share is about 10%. The diversity index for Russian Jack Elementary is 83%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.4:1. The school has 17.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Alaska is 15.3:1. In all, 93% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 49% average for public schools in Anchorage Municipality is 44 points.
On the allk12 Grade, Russian Jack Elementary lands at C, ahead of 26% of Alaska public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, Russian Jack Elementary is 1.8 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Alaska schools.
Anchorage Municipality is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $103,284, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. There are 99 public schools in the county, enrolling about 41,241, Russian Jack Elementary among them.
Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School sits about 0.2 miles from Russian Jack Elementary. Russian Jack Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Russian Jack Elementary comes in 3rd of 6 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Large.
Enrollment figures show a decline of 32 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The ratio was 9.9:1 in 2020-21 and 14.4:1 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to Russian Jack Elementary can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Anchorage Municipality at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
288,976
Census ACS
Median income
$103,284
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
99
41,241 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Anchorage School District
- West High SchoolHigh · 1,702 students
- Bettye Davis East Anchorage High SchoolHigh · 1,636 students
- Service High SchoolHigh · 1,518 students
- Bartlett High SchoolCombined · 1,431 students
- Dimond High SchoolHigh · 1,373 students
- South Anchorage High SchoolHigh · 1,239 students
Other schools in Anchorage
- West High SchoolHigh · 1,702 students
- Bettye Davis East Anchorage High SchoolHigh · 1,636 students
- Service High SchoolHigh · 1,518 students
- Bartlett High SchoolCombined · 1,431 students
- Dimond High SchoolHigh · 1,373 students
- South Anchorage High SchoolHigh · 1,239 students
Nearby schools
- Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School0.2 mi · 1,636
- Winterberry School0.5 mi · 264
- Whaley School0.5 mi · 298
- Williwaw Elementary0.7 mi · 315
- College Gate Elementary0.8 mi · 363
- Nunaka Valley Elementary0.8 mi · 193
Frequently asked questions
About Russian Jack ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Russian Jack Elementary?
Russian Jack Elementary enrolls approximately 254 students in grades PK-06.
Is Russian Jack Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Russian Jack Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Russian Jack Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Russian Jack Elementary is approximately 14.4:1 (18 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Russian Jack Elementary?
Russian Jack Elementary reports a student body of 8% White, 22% Hispanic, 4% Black, 19% Asian, 17% Two or more.
Who oversees Russian Jack Elementary?
Russian Jack Elementary is overseen by Anchorage School District in Anchorage Municipality.
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