At $28,651 per pupil, Skagway School District ranks #30 of 53 Alaska districts by per-pupil spending (Alaska districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Skagway School District operates 1 public schools serving 152 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 Skagway Municipality.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $28,651 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 53 Alaska districts by per-pupil spending. See how Alaska compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 57.3% local, 35.5% state, and 7.1% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 1 schools offering Advanced Placement (3 AP courses district-wide), and 58.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 77.5% White, 4.3% Asian, 2.9% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Skagway School, enrolling 138 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Skagway School accounts for 90.8% of all Skagway School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Skagway School District a distant remainder — means Skagway 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.
Skagway School District chronic absenteeism rate is 58.7% — 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.