English Language Arts
18.9%
State avg 36.1%
District avg 35.7%
County avg 35.7%
+8.9pp since 2023-24
District avg 35.7%
County avg 35.7%
+8.9pp since 2023-24
Test scores
See how it ranks: all Alaska schools by score · Anchorage Municipality schools by score
AK STAR + Alaska Science, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Advanced + Proficient.Mathematics
9.4%
State avg 34.6%
District avg 35.0%
County avg 34.8%
District avg 35.0%
County avg 34.8%
Science
N/A
State avg 43.1%
District avg 40.8%
County avg 41.2%
District avg 40.8%
County avg 41.2%
What this means: On the AK STAR + Alaska Science, Alaska's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 9 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 9 points since 2023.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of AK schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
16.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.3%
based on AK schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-31.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 47% typical for Alaska schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
By grade, SY 2024-25
School score vs state average per tested grade.| Grade | English Language Arts | Mathematics | Science | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | |
| Grade ALL | 18.9% | 36.1% | 67 | 9.4% | 34.6% | 67 | N/A | 43.1% | N/A |
2-year history
All grades, all students. Whaley Alaska avgEnglish Language Arts
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 18.9% | 35.7% | 35.7% | 36.1% |
| SY 2023-24 | 10.0% | 36.0% | 36.0% | 35.2% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 9.4% | 35.0% | 34.8% | 34.6% |
| SY 2023-24 | N/A | 35.5% | 35.3% | 34.3% |
Science
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | N/A | 40.8% | 41.2% | 43.1% |
| SY 2023-24 | 25.9% | 39.0% | 39.1% | 41.8% |
How to read these scores
What is AK STAR + Alaska Science?
AK STAR + Alaska Science is the statewide standardized test administered by Alaska public schools.
What does "% Advanced + Proficient" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 18.9% mean for English Language Arts at Whaley School?
It means about 18.9 percent of students tested at Whaley School performed at grade level or above on the AK STAR + Alaska Science English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Alaska that year was 36.1%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Alaska, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, AK STAR (ELA + Math grades 3-9) and Alaska Science (grades 5, 8, 10). School-level All Students rollup scraped from the per-school assessment-results pages on education.alaska.gov. Headline metric is the cumulative "Advanced + Proficient" rate (top 2 of 4 levels).
How often is it updated?
AK STAR + Alaska Science is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.