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Enrollment
413
Elementary
DISTRICT 294 · STATE 277
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAIRBANKS NORTH STAR BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 020060000519
Weller Elementary
635 Elementary Dr, Fairbanks, AK 99701 · (907) 457-1629 · Fairbanks North Star Borough
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL413 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 45% of Alaska public elementary schools
- B-Test 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
19.7:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.1:1 · STATE 15.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
131 students
DISTRICT 35% · STATE 65%
Community
6
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 | 5 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
47.0%
AK avg 36.1% . +13.8pp since 2023
Math
42.9%
AK avg 34.6% . +11.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the AK STAR + Alaska Science, Alaska's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alaska schools, those numbers are about 36 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
AK STAR + Alaska Science results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.0% | 42.9% |
| 2023-24 | 33.2% | 31.4% |
% 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
43.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.5%
based on AK schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 Weller Elementary
Weller Elementary's state test result (43.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weller Elementary this school | 413 | 31.7% | 43.3% |
| Fred and Sara Machetanz Elementary School Wasilla | 468 | 29.1% | 59.7% |
| Barnette Magnet School Fairbanks | 417 | 29.5% | 51.6% |
| Pearl Creek Elementary Fairbanks | 388 | 26.3% | 49.7% |
| Cottonwood Creek Elementary Wasilla | 422 | 37.9% | 48.4% |
| North Pole Elementary North Pole | 312 | 34.6% | 32.8% |
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 Weller Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alaska | In Fairbanks North Star Borough |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.3% | #62 of 134 | #7 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.9% | #65 of 150 ▲ 25 | #8 of 18 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #42 of 150 ▲ 43 | #7 of 18 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 413 | #20 of 169 | #2 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.7:1 | #122 of 125 | #15 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.1% | #77 of 125 | #11 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.7% | #101 of 142 | #11 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.8% | #82 of 115 | #10 of 13 |
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
413
+129 (+45%) vs 2020
-38% since 1990-91, when it was 663
Student : Teacher
19.7:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 413 | 21 | 19.7:1 | 32% (131) |
| 2023-24 | 459 | 23.5 | 19.5:1 | 38% (173) |
| 2022-23 | 467 | 23 | 20.3:1 | 33% (152) |
| 2020-21 | 284 | 23 | 12.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 468 | 26 | 18.0:1 | 28% (132) |
| 2015-16 | 467 | 25 | 18.7:1 | 29% (136) |
| 2010-11 | 546 | 30 | 18.2:1 | 21% (117) |
| 2000-01 | 569 | 28 | 20.3:1 | 10% (58) |
| 1990-91 | 663 | 36 | 18.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Weller Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (468 to 413); teachers down 19% (26 to 21).
About Weller Elementary
Weller Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school based in Fairbanks, Alaska. It had 413 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5. That compares with an average of about 277 students for elementary schools in Alaska.
In Fairbanks North Star Borough School District, 34 schools enroll a combined 12,214 students.
At Weller Elementary, 61% of students are White. Other students are 20% multiracial, 10% Native American, and 8% Hispanic. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 57%.
A staff of 21 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 19.7:1. Compared with the 15.3:1 average for elementary schools in Alaska, this school's ratio is higher. By family income, 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in Fairbanks North Star Borough is close, at 33%.
Among Alaska public elementary schools, Weller Elementary outscored 45%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
Weller Elementary scores 43.3% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 42.5%.
For the population of Fairbanks North Star Borough, median household income comes to about $88,267, roughly 33% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 3%. Fairbanks North Star Borough counts 39 public schools with about 23,777 students.
Weller Elementary's nearest public school is Ladd Elementary (about 3.5 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are 5 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 35.6%; Weller Elementary's is 43.3%, ranking 2nd of 7.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Small, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
Weller Elementary had 284 students in 2020-21 and 413 in 2024-25, according to federal records. Those counts may cover different grade spans. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 12.3:1 to 19.7:1.
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Fairbanks North Star Borough at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
95,460
Census ACS
Median income
$88,267
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
39
23,777 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fairbanks North Star Borough School District
- Lathrop High SchoolHigh · 788 students
- Fairbanks B.E.S.T.Combined · 784 students
- West Valley High SchoolHigh · 782 students
- North Pole High SchoolHigh · 695 students
- North Pole Middle SchoolMiddle · 631 students
- Tanana Middle SchoolMiddle · 523 students
Other schools in Fairbanks
- Interior Distance Education of Alaska (IDEA)Combined · 7,876 students
- Raven SchoolCombined · 3,687 students
- Lathrop High SchoolHigh · 788 students
- Fairbanks B.E.S.T.Combined · 784 students
- West Valley High SchoolHigh · 782 students
- Tanana Middle SchoolMiddle · 523 students
Other Weller Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Weller Elementary. Weller Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Weller Elementary SchoolCenterville, OH · 533 students
- WELLER ELEM.SPRINGFIELD, MO · 292 students
Nearby schools
- Ladd Elementary3.5 mi · 383
- Tanana Middle School3.6 mi · 523
- Alternative Learning Systems4.1 mi · 184
- Fairbanks B.E.S.T.4.1 mi · 784
- Ticasuk Brown Elementary4.7 mi · 351
- Anne Wien Elementary5.0 mi · 360
Frequently asked questions
About Weller ElementaryHow many students attend Weller Elementary?
Weller Elementary enrolls approximately 413 students in grades PK-05.
Is Weller Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Weller Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Weller Elementary have?
Weller Elementary employs 21 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Weller Elementary?
Student demographics at Weller Elementary are roughly 61% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 20% Two or more.
Who oversees Weller Elementary?
Weller Elementary is overseen by Fairbanks North Star Borough School District in Fairbanks North Star Borough.
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