NCES CCD 2024-25 15 schools AK

Best-Resourced Schools in Juneau, AK

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15 public K-12 schools in Juneau from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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15
Schools
4,958
Students
39.9/100
Avg Resource Index
16.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Juneau has more public-school enrollment than 55% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Juneau sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

9 of Juneau's 15 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 59-point gap between Homebridge and Dzantik'i Heeni Middle School shows the range hidden by Juneau's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 45%
School count
Top 23%
Resource Index average
45th percentile
Teacher staffing
40th percentile

Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalt accounts for 20.5% of all Juneau public-school enrollment

That concentration means Juneau-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Juneau school enrollment varies 102× across entities

Juneau school enrollment ranges from 10 students (lowest) to 1,018 students (highest), a spread of 1,008 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Juneau operates one school district — a single-district system

Juneau's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Juneau student-teacher ratio is 16.3:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Juneau is typically wider than the Juneau-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Homebridge 85
2. Johnson Youth Center 62
3. Juneau Community Charter School 46
4. Yaakoosge Daakahidi Alt. H.S. 40
5. Thunder Mountain High School 39
6. Saytik: Gastineau Community School 39
7. Sit Eeti Shaanax - Glacier Valley School 37
8. Mendenhall River Community School 37
9. Harborview Elementary 35
10. Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalt 31
11. Floyd Dryden Middle School 31
12. Montessori Borealis Public Alternative School 31
13. Auke Bay Elementary 30
14. Riverbend Elementary 29
15. Dzantik'i Heeni Middle School 26

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Juneau

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Riverbend Elementary 78.7/100
  2. 2 Harborview Elementary 78.0/100
  3. 3 Sit Eeti Shaanax - Glacier Valley School 76.1/100
  4. 4 Yaakoosge Daakahidi Alt. H.S. 73.4/100
  5. 5 Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalt 71.2/100

What do families ask about schools in Juneau?

Which Juneau school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Homebridge has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Juneau schools in this federal-data comparison at 85/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Juneau, AK? ▼

Juneau has 15 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,958 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.3:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.