Enrollment
291
Elementary
DISTRICT 316 · STATE 277
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ANCHORAGE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 020018000561
Spring Hill Elementary
9911 Lake Otis Pwky, Anchorage, AK 99507 · (907) 742-5450 · Anchorage Municipality
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL291 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 14% of Alaska public elementary schools
- DTest 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
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 15.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
252 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 | 36 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 33 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 36 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 54 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 45 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (33) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (44).
Student demographics
84%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
13.0%
AK avg 36.1% . +0.5pp since 2023
Math
19.4%
AK avg 34.6% . -3.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the AK STAR + Alaska Science, Alaska's statewide test, about 13 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alaska schools, those numbers are about 36 and 35. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
AK STAR + Alaska Science results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 13.0% | 19.4% |
| 2023-24 | 12.5% | 22.7% |
% 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
19.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.4%
based on AK schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% 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 Spring Hill Elementary
Spring Hill Elementary's state test result (19.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Hill Elementary this school | 291 | 86.6% | 19.5% |
| Ptarmigan Elementary Anchorage | 392 | 83.2% | 19.1% |
| Northwood ABC Anchorage | 255 | 79.6% | 26.4% |
| Taku Elementary Anchorage | 258 | 76.0% | 29.2% |
| Gladys Wood Elementary Anchorage | 267 | 76.0% | 35.4% |
| Russian Jack Elementary Anchorage | 254 | 92.9% | 23.0% |
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 Spring Hill Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alaska | In Anchorage Municipality |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.5% | #117 of 134 | #45 of 55 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.4% | #127 of 150 ▼ 10 | #45 of 62 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 13.0% | #140 of 150 no change | #55 of 62 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 291 | #82 of 169 | #36 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #26 of 125 | #7 of 56 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 83.7% | #6 of 125 | #6 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.6% | #15 of 142 | #12 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.7% | #28 of 115 | #16 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
291
-25 (-8%) vs 2020
-62% since 1990-91, when it was 776
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 291 | 20.3 | 14.4:1 | 87% (252) |
| 2023-24 | 367 | 21.9 | 16.8:1 | 84% (309) |
| 2022-23 | 335 | 20.7 | 16.2:1 | 80% (267) |
| 2020-21 | 316 | 22 | 14.4:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 414 | 27.4 | 15.1:1 | 74% (308) |
| 2015-16 | 376 | 24 | 15.7:1 | 64% (241) |
| 2010-11 | 340 | 22 | 15.4:1 | 57% (193) |
| 2000-01 | 372 | 21 | 17.7:1 | 28% (105) |
| 1990-91 | 776 | 33 | 23.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Spring Hill Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 30% (414 to 291); teachers down 26% (27.4 to 20.3).
About Spring Hill Elementary
Spring Hill Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school found in Anchorage, Alaska. It offers pre-K through 6 and has 291 students enrolled.
Spring Hill Elementary is part of Anchorage School District, where 92 schools serve 40,587 students.
Of every 100 students at Spring Hill Elementary, about 22 are multiracial, the largest group. After that, the student body is 21% White, 15% Asian, 14% Native American, and 13% Hispanic. A diversity index of 84% means there is an 84% chance two randomly chosen students at Spring Hill Elementary are from different groups.
There are about 14.4 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Spring Hill Elementary, which has 20.3. Elementary schools in Alaska have an average ratio of 15.3:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 87%. The rate at public schools in Anchorage Municipality averages 49%, lower than here.
Among Alaska public elementary schools, Spring Hill Elementary outscored 14%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
On BeatsExpectations, Spring Hill Elementary is 3.9 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Alaska schools.
In Anchorage Municipality, median household income comes to about $103,284, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county's public schools total 99, with about 41,241 students.
Hanshew Middle School is about 0.2 miles from Spring Hill Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The school's 19.5% average proficiency ranks 8th among 8 nearby schools.
NCES describes the area around Spring Hill Elementary as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count decreased 8% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
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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
Other Spring Hill Elementary schools
11 other US public schools in 10 states are named Spring Hill Elementary. Spring Hill Elementary is the 11th largest of the 12.
- Spring Hill ElementaryMcLean, VA · 980 students
- SPRING HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSPRING HILL, FL · 829 students
- Spring Hill Elementary SchoolFayetteville, GA · 661 students
- Spring Hill ElementaryWisconsin Dells, WI · 628 students
- Spring Hill Elementary SchoolSpring Hill, KS · 600 students
Nearby schools
- Hanshew Middle School0.2 mi · 822
- FOCUS Homeschool0.7 mi · 549
- Alaska Native Cultural Charter School0.8 mi · 357
- Bowman Elementary1.4 mi · 536
- Trailside Elementary1.5 mi · 364
- Huffman Elementary1.7 mi · 268
Frequently asked questions
About Spring Hill ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Spring Hill Elementary?
Spring Hill Elementary enrolls approximately 291 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Spring Hill Elementary serve?
Spring Hill Elementary serves grades PK-06.
How many teachers does Spring Hill Elementary have?
Spring Hill Elementary employs 20 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Spring Hill Elementary?
Student demographics at Spring Hill Elementary are roughly 21% White, 13% Hispanic, 6% Black, 15% Asian, 22% Two or more.
What district is Spring Hill Elementary in?
Spring Hill Elementary is part of Anchorage School District.
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