At $59,917 per pupil, Pelican City School District ranks #3 of 53 Alaska districts by per-pupil spending (Alaska districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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$59,917
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Pelican City School District operates 1 public schools serving 12 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Alaska. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 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 Hoonah-Angoon Census Area.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $59,917 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 6 of 53 Alaska districts by per-pupil spending. See how Alaska compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 8.2% local, 85.1% state, and 6.7% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 33.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 83.3% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Pelican School, enrolling 12 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Pelican School accounts for 100.0% of all Pelican City School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Pelican City School District a distant remainder — means Pelican City School District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Pelican City School District chronic absenteeism rate is 33.3% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.