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St. Paul Island, Alaska - 2 schools
At $38,967 per pupil, Pribilof School District ranks #21 of 54 Alaska districts by per-pupil spending (Alaska districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
57
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$38,967
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Pribilof School District operates 2 public schools serving 57 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Alaska. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 Aleutians West Census Area.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $38,967 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 54 Alaska districts by per-pupil spending. See how Alaska compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 11.2% local, 59.0% state, and 29.8% 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 73.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 0.8% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is St Paul School, enrolling 61 students (94% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Pribilof Correspondence School, at 4 students, a 15x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
St Paul School accounts for 93.8% of all Pribilof School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Pribilof School District a distant remainder — means Pribilof 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.
Pribilof School District chronic absenteeism rate is 73.8% — 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.