Salcha Elementary

Located at 8530 Richardson Hwy, in Fairbanks, Alaska, Salcha Elementary is a micro-enrollment elementary campus that hosts 59 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Fairbanks North Star Borough School District. Compared to the state average of about 277 students per school, that is 79% leaner than typical.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District runs 34 schools in total, collectively educating 12,214 students. Salcha Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Salcha Elementary lists that White students make up the majority at 71%; the rest breaks down as 15% Hispanic, 12% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Fairbanks North Star Borough as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 49% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Fairbanks North Star Borough runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Salcha Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.4%, the actual is 43.9%, a residual of +7.5 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Fairbanks North Star Borough indicate the typical household earns roughly $88,267 per year, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Salcha Elementary is one of 39 public schools in Fairbanks North Star Borough (combined enrollment of about 23,777 students).

Nearest neighbor: Anderson Crawford Elementary, around 13.4 miles off.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 18%: 72 students in 2018 compared to 59 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 83% to 71% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

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