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Naknek, Alaska - 3 schools
At $58,796 per pupil, Bristol Bay Borough School District ranks #3 of 54 Alaska districts by per-pupil spending (Alaska districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
121
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$58,796
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Bristol Bay Borough School District operates 3 public schools serving 121 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Alaska. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Bristol Bay Borough.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $58,796 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 6 of 54 Alaska districts by per-pupil spending. See how Alaska compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 41.3% local, 33.7% state, and 25.0% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 68.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 20.2% White, 1.2% Asian, 0.7% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Bristol Bay Middle/High School, with a diversity index of 48.5/100.
Its largest campus is Naknek Elementary, enrolling 54 students (51% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Bristol Bay Correspondence, at 3 students, a 18x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Naknek Elementary accounts for 44.6% of all Bristol Bay Borough School District student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Bristol Bay Borough School District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Bristol Bay Borough School District school enrollment varies 18× across entities
Bristol Bay Borough School District school enrollment ranges from 3 students (lowest) to 54 students (highest), a spread of 51 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Bristol Bay Borough School District has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 95.0% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is a supermajority of the population — well past the 75% concentration-grant threshold that unlocks extra funding on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Bristol Bay Borough School District chronic absenteeism rate is 68.1% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to Bristol Bay Borough School District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in Bristol Bay Borough School District?
Bristol Bay Borough School District has 3 schools, including 3 combined. Total enrollment is 121 students.
How much does Bristol Bay Borough School District spend per student?
Bristol Bay Borough School District spends $58,796 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Bristol Bay Borough School District?
Bristol Bay Borough School District students are 20.2% White, 1.2% Asian, 0.7% Hispanic or Latino, averaged across 3 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.