Tatitlek Community School

Located at Main St, in Tatitlek, Alaska, Tatitlek Community School is a very small all-grades campus that teaches 10 students (grades pre-K through 12), operated by Chugach School District. By comparison, Alaska's public schools average about 192 students each, so Tatitlek Community School sits 95% below that benchmark.

Tatitlek Community School is one of 4 schools operated by Chugach School District, a district that instructs 617 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Tatitlek Community School lists that 90% of students identify as Native American, making the school strongly Native American-majority. The remainder consists of 10% White.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 5.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 27.0:1 average.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Chugach Census Area put the typical household earns roughly $90,509 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Chugach Census Area runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,034 students), of which Tatitlek Community School is one.

The closest other public school is Hermon Hutchens Elementary, roughly 21.0 miles away.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Tatitlek Community School's enrollment has ticked down 55% since 2018, when it stood at 22 (now 10). The White share of enrollment shrank from 18% to 10% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 9.1:1 in 2018 to 5.0:1 today.

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