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Enrollment
364
Elementary
DISTRICT 316 · STATE 277
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ANCHORAGE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 020018000390
Trailside Elementary
5151 Abbott Rd, Anchorage, AK 99507 · (907) 742-5500 · Anchorage Municipality
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL364 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 71% of Alaska public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
15.9:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 15.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
85 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 65%
Community
1
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 | 17 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 49 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 26% smaller than its 5th grade class (66).
Student demographics
73%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
49.7%
AK avg 36.1% . -2.5pp since 2023
Math
53.0%
AK avg 34.6% . -2.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the AK STAR + Alaska Science, Alaska's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alaska schools, those numbers are about 36 and 35. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points 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 | 49.7% | 53.0% |
| 2023-24 | 52.2% | 55.9% |
% 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
53.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.4%
based on AK schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 Trailside Elementary
Trailside Elementary's state test result (53.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trailside Elementary this school | 364 | 23.4% | 53.9% |
| Bowman Elementary Anchorage | 536 | 28.9% | 53.8% |
| Bayshore Elementary Anchorage | 338 | 16.3% | 54.9% |
| Sand Lake Elementary Anchorage | 367 | 32.4% | 48.5% |
| Kincaid Elementary Anchorage | 322 | 26.4% | 58.5% |
| Harborview Elementary Juneau | 349 | 30.1% | 35.6% |
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 Trailside Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alaska | In Anchorage Municipality |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.9% | #27 of 134 | #14 of 55 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #35 of 150 ▼ 11 | #17 of 62 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.7% | #31 of 150 ▼ 11 | #15 of 62 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 364 | #35 of 169 | #16 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #59 of 125 | #25 of 56 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.6% | #39 of 125 | #32 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.4% | #121 of 142 | #45 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.3% | #79 of 115 | #39 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
364
+55 (+18%) vs 2020
-16% since 2000-01, when it was 435
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 14.1:1
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 | 364 | 22.9 | 15.9:1 | 23% (85) |
| 2023-24 | 427 | 25.5 | 16.8:1 | 24% (103) |
| 2022-23 | 379 | 24.4 | 15.6:1 | 26% (100) |
| 2020-21 | 309 | 22 | 14.1:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 415 | 23.8 | 17.4:1 | 29% (120) |
| 2015-16 | 416 | 25 | 16.6:1 | 25% (104) |
| 2010-11 | 476 | 29 | 16.4:1 | 25% (121) |
| 2000-01 | 435 | 24 | 18.1:1 | 8% (36) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Trailside Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (415 to 364); teachers down 4% (23.8 to 22.9).
About Trailside Elementary
Trailside Elementary is an elementary school located in Anchorage, Alaska, in Anchorage Municipality. It enrolled 364 students in pre-K through 6 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 31% higher than the average for elementary schools in Alaska, which is about 277.
Anchorage School District enrolls 40,587 students, and its 92 schools include Trailside Elementary.
By race and ethnicity, the largest group at Trailside Elementary is White (46%). Enrollment also includes 15% multiracial, 12% Asian, 12% Hispanic, and 8% Native American. The school's White share is 11 points below the 57% share among Anchorage Municipality residents. The chance that two students picked at random at Trailside Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 73%.
Federal staffing data show 22.9 full-time-equivalent teachers at Trailside Elementary and a ratio of 15.9:1. Elementary schools in Alaska have a similar average ratio of 15.3:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 23% of students. For comparison, public schools in Anchorage Municipality average 49%.
Trailside Elementary is graded B+ by allk12, scoring above 71% of Alaska public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 45.4% for Trailside Elementary. The school posts 53.9%, 8.5 points above the prediction.
Census estimates describe Anchorage Municipality this way: median household income is about $103,284, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Anchorage Municipality number 99 and enroll about 41,241.
The shortest distance from Trailside Elementary to another public school is about 0.2 miles, to Service High School. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. By average proficiency, Trailside Elementary is 3rd among 8 schools close by.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
Enrollment was 309 in 2020-21 and 364 in 2024-25, a rise of 55 students. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 14.1:1; by 2024-25 it was 15.9:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week at Trailside Elementary. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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 Trailside Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Trailside Elementary. Trailside Elementary is the 4th largest of the 5.
- Trailside ElementaryVINEYARD, UT · 1,052 students
- Trailside Elementary SchoolZionsville, IN · 547 students
- Trailside Elementary SchoolCedar Rapids, IA · 429 students
- Trailside ElementaryWaterford, WI · 331 students
Nearby schools
- Service High School0.2 mi · 1,518
- Kasuun Elementary1.4 mi · 343
- Spring Hill Elementary1.5 mi · 291
- O'Malley Elementary1.5 mi · 350
- Alaska Native Cultural Charter School1.5 mi · 357
- Hanshew Middle School1.6 mi · 822
Frequently asked questions
About Trailside ElementaryHow many students attend Trailside Elementary?
Trailside Elementary enrolls approximately 364 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Trailside Elementary serve?
Trailside Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many teachers does Trailside Elementary have?
Trailside Elementary employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Trailside Elementary?
Student demographics at Trailside Elementary are roughly 46% White, 12% Hispanic, 2% Black, 12% Asian, 15% Two or more.
Is Trailside Elementary public or private?
Trailside Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Anchorage School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.