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Akiachak, Alaska - 3 schools
An equity score of 76/100 ranks Yupiit School District #7 of 40 districts in Alaska (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $40,002 per pupil, Yupiit School District ranks #15 of 54 Alaska districts by per-pupil spending (Alaska districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
471
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$40,002
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Yupiit School District operates 3 public schools serving 471 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Alaska. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 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 Bethel Census Area.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $40,002 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 1.4% local, 44.4% state, and 54.2% federal, an unusually federal-heavy mix, typically a marker of concentrated Title I eligibility or a small district reliant on federal impact-aid programs. The district's equity score is 76/100, ranked #7 of 40 in Alaska against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 135:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 80.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 0.4% White, 0.3% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Akiachak School, with a diversity index of 6.1/100.
Its largest campus is Akiachak School, enrolling 254 students (49% of the district's total enrollment).
Akiachak School accounts for 48.7% of all Yupiit School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Yupiit School District a distant remainder — means Yupiit 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.
Yupiit School District has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 100.0% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is a supermajority of the population — well past the 75% concentration-grant threshold that unlocks extra funding on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Yupiit School District student-counselor ratio is 135:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Yupiit School District chronic absenteeism rate is 80.5% — 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.