Enrollment
342
Elementary
DISTRICT 294 · STATE 277
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAIRBANKS NORTH STAR BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 020060000280
Woodriver Elementary
5000 Palo Verde Dr, Fairbanks, AK 99709 · (907) 479-4211 · Fairbanks North Star Borough
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL342 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 80% 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.
- A-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
18.0:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.1:1 · STATE 15.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
112 students
DISTRICT 35% · STATE 65%
Community
0
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 | 55 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 63 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (67).
Student demographics
66%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
51.1%
AK avg 36.1% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
60.7%
AK avg 34.6% . +9.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the AK STAR + Alaska Science, Alaska's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alaska schools, those numbers are about 36 and 35. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
AK STAR + Alaska Science results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.1% | 60.7% |
| 2023-24 | 51.1% | 51.1% |
% 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
54.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.1%
based on AK schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% 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 Woodriver Elementary
Woodriver Elementary's state test result (54.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodriver Elementary this school | 342 | 32.7% | 54.5% |
| Barnette Magnet School Fairbanks | 417 | 29.5% | 51.6% |
| North Pole Elementary North Pole | 312 | 34.6% | 32.8% |
| University Park Elementary Fairbanks | 361 | 36.0% | 31.7% |
| SAYEIK: GASTINEAU COMMUNITY SCHOOL Juneau | 281 | 30.2% | 40.1% |
| Weller Elementary Fairbanks | 413 | 31.7% | 43.3% |
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 Woodriver Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alaska | In Fairbanks North Star Borough |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.5% | #24 of 134 | #3 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.7% | #19 of 150 ▲ 14 | #3 of 18 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.1% | #25 of 150 ▼ 1 | #4 of 18 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 342 | #53 of 169 | #10 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.0:1 | #101 of 125 | #9 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.2% | #51 of 125 | #7 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.7% | #99 of 142 | #10 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.6% | #54 of 115 | #7 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
342
+11 (+3%) vs 2020
-43% since 1990-91, when it was 597
Student : Teacher
18.0:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 342 | 19 | 18.0:1 | 33% (112) |
| 2023-24 | 347 | 20.6 | 16.8:1 | 39% (137) |
| 2022-23 | 341 | 20.5 | 16.6:1 | 37% (127) |
| 2020-21 | 331 | 24 | 13.8:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 436 | 26 | 16.8:1 | 31% (134) |
| 2015-16 | 473 | 25 | 18.9:1 | 31% (145) |
| 2010-11 | 450 | 25 | 18.0:1 | 25% (112) |
| 2000-01 | 502 | 29 | 17.3:1 | 16% (81) |
| 1990-91 | 597 | 30 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Woodriver Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (436 to 342); teachers down 27% (26 to 19).
About Woodriver Elementary
At 5000 Palo Verde Dr in Fairbanks, Alaska, Woodriver Elementary operates as a mid-sized elementary school. The school enrolls 342 students in pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Alaska average about 277 students, which makes this school 23% bigger than average.
Woodriver Elementary sits within Fairbanks North Star Borough School District, which has 34 schools and 12,214 students.
The student body at Woodriver Elementary is 52% White. The school is also 20% multiracial, 15% Native American, 8% Hispanic, and 3% Black. The White share of the county population is higher, at 69%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 66, compared with 70 nationally.
Staffing at Woodriver Elementary comes to 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18.0:1. Elementary schools in Alaska average 15.3:1, 2.7 fewer students per teacher than here. Woodriver Elementary counts 33% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in Fairbanks North Star Borough is close, at 33%.
Woodriver Elementary earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 80% of Alaska public elementary schools.
Compared with Alaska schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Woodriver Elementary's results are 12.4 points above predicted: 54.5% against 42.1%.
Looking at the county, Fairbanks North Star Borough, median household income comes to about $88,267, about 33% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 3%. The county's public schools total 39, with about 23,777 students.
Woodriver Elementary's closest public school neighbor is University Park Elementary, about 0.8 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Woodriver Elementary ranks 2nd of 6 nearby schools, at 54.5% versus a 37.3% average.
NCES assigns Woodriver Elementary the locale City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 3%, from 331 to 342. By 2024-25, the school had 18.0 students per teacher, compared with 13.8 in 2020-21.
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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
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Other schools in Fairbanks North Star Borough School District
- Lathrop High SchoolHigh · 788 students
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- 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
Nearby schools
- University Park Elementary0.8 mi · 361
- Watershed Charter School0.9 mi · 200
- Effie Kokrine Charter School1.1 mi · 139
- Raven School1.3 mi · 3,687
- West Valley High School1.6 mi · 782
- Hutchison High School1.8 mi · 356
Frequently asked questions
About Woodriver ElementaryHow large is Woodriver Elementary?
Woodriver Elementary enrolls approximately 342 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Woodriver Elementary serve?
Woodriver Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Woodriver Elementary?
Approximately 18.0:1 students per teacher at Woodriver Elementary.
How diverse is Woodriver Elementary?
Woodriver Elementary reports a student body of 52% White, 8% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 20% Two or more.
Who oversees Woodriver Elementary?
Woodriver Elementary is overseen by Fairbanks North Star Borough School District in Fairbanks North Star Borough.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.