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Yakutat, Alaska - 2 schools
At $26,646 per pupil, Yakutat School District ranks #32 of 54 Alaska districts by per-pupil spending (Alaska districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
92
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$26,646
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Yakutat School District operates 2 public schools serving 92 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 Yakutat City and Borough.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $26,646 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 54 Alaska districts by per-pupil spending. See how Alaska compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 22.6% local, 60.1% state, and 17.3% 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 70.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 57.8% White, 2.7% African American, 1.4% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Yakutat School, enrolling 74 students (78% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Lead Correspondence, at 21 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Yakutat School accounts for 77.9% of all Yakutat School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Yakutat School District a distant remainder — means Yakutat 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.
Yakutat School District chronic absenteeism rate is 70.3% — 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.
Yakutat School District has 2 schools, including 2 combined. Total enrollment is 92 students.
How much does Yakutat School District spend per student?
Yakutat School District spends $26,646 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Yakutat School District?
Yakutat School District students are 57.8% White, 2.7% African American, 1.4% Hispanic or Latino, 0.7% Asian, averaged across 2 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.