An equity score of 57/100 ranks Saint Mary's School District #16 of 40 districts in Alaska (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $39,916 per pupil, Saint Mary's School District ranks #19 of 53 Alaska districts by per-pupil spending (Alaska districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Saint Mary's School District operates 1 public schools serving 203 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 Kusilvak Census Area.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $39,916 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 53 Alaska districts by per-pupil spending. See how Alaska compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 3.5% local, 65.5% state, and 31.0% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 57/100, ranked #16 of 40 in Alaska against a state average of 50, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 178:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 52.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Saint Mary's School, enrolling 178 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Saint Mary's School accounts for 87.7% of all Saint Mary's School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Saint Mary's School District a distant remainder — means Saint Mary's 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.
Saint Mary's School District reports 100.0% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Saint Mary's School District student-counselor ratio is 178:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Saint Mary's School District chronic absenteeism rate is 52.2% — 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.