Taku Elementary

Set in Anchorage, Alaska, Taku Elementary is a mid-sized K-5 school, overseen by Anchorage School District. It hosts 258 students across grades pre-K through 6.

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

On demographics, Taku Elementary logs that the most-represented group is multiracial (18%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 17% White, 17% Pacific Islander, 16% Hispanic, 16% Native American.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.3:1, putting Taku Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Anchorage Municipality (around 49%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Taku Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.1%, the actual is 29.2%, a residual of +2.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Anchorage Municipality shows median household income runs about $103,284, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Anchorage Municipality runs 99 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,241 students), of which Taku Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Polaris K-12 School, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 31%: 373 students in 2018 compared to 258 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 in 2025.

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