Steller Secondary School

Set in Anchorage, Alaska, Steller Secondary School is a close-knit senior high, one of the schools within Anchorage School District. It educates 305 students across grades 6 through 12.

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

On demographics, Steller Secondary School records that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 11% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 5% Native American, 3% Asian. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

On the resource side, The school employs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Steller Secondary School higher than the state norm the norm.

In the area at large, census data for Anchorage Municipality shows the typical household earns roughly $103,284 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Anchorage Municipality runs 99 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,241 students), of which Steller Secondary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: North Star Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Steller Secondary School's enrollment has rose 7% since 2018, when it stood at 286 (now 305). The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 4% to 10% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 20.8:1 today.

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