Alaska · NCES CCD 2024-25

Largest Schools in Alaska

The 50 largest public schools in Alaska, ranked by total student enrollment from NCES CCD 2024-25.

Compiled from official source data by .
7,876
Largest school
1,087
Avg across top 50
50
Schools listed

The ranking in one line

Interior Distance Education of Alaska (Idea) in Fairbanks is Alaska's largest public school with 7,876 students enrolled.

7,876
students at Interior Distance Education of Alaska (Idea)
127.8:1
student-teacher ratio at the largest school
1,087
average across the top 50
# School Enrollment
1 Interior Distance Education of Alaska (Idea) Fairbanks 7,876
2 Raven School Fairbanks 3,687
3 Mat-Su Central School Wasilla 2,780
4 Cyberlynx Correspondence Program Nenana 2,085
5 West High School Anchorage 1,702
6 Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School Anchorage 1,636
7 Service High School Anchorage 1,518
8 Bartlett High School Anchorage 1,431
9 Dimond High School Anchorage 1,373
10 South Anchorage High School Anchorage 1,239
11 Connections Soldotna 1,188
12 Romig Middle School Anchorage 1,138
13 Colony High School Palmer 1,046
14 Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalt Juneau 1,018
15 Family Partnership Charter School Anchorage 1,008
16 Chugiak High School Chugiak 928
17 Denali Peak Healy 882
18 Nicholas J. Begich Middle School Anchorage 830
19 Hanshew Middle School Anchorage 822
20 Wasilla High School Wasilla 816
21 Gruening Middle School Eagle River 797
22 Lathrop High School Fairbanks 788
23 Fairbanks B.E.S.T. Fairbanks 784
24 West Valley High School Fairbanks 782
25 Eagle River High School Eagle River 771
26 Colony Middle School Palmer 771
27 Mears Middle School Anchorage 733
28 Clark Middle School Anchorage 713
29 Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School Wasilla 705
30 Soldotna High School Soldotna 695
31 North Pole High School North Pole 695
32 Frontier Charter School Anchorage 689
33 Teeland Middle School Wasilla 643
34 North Pole Middle School North Pole 631
35 Goldenview Middle School Anchorage 626
36 Palmer High School Palmer 616
37 Wendler Middle School Anchorage 602
38 Twindly Bridge Charter School Wasilla 601
39 Thunder Mountain High School Juneau 586
40 Wasilla Middle School Wasilla 584
41 Northern Lights Abc K-8 School Anchorage 582
42 Kodiak High School Kodiak 579
43 Mirror Lake Middle School Chugiak 571
44 Palmer Middle School Palmer 563
45 Ketchikan High School Ketchikan 551
46 Focus Homeschool Anchorage 549
47 Central Middle School of Science Anchorage 545
48 Bowman Elementary Anchorage 536
49 Kenai Central High School Kenai 525
50 Tanana Middle School Fairbanks 523

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Methodology

Enrollment data comes from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 school year. Schools are ranked by total student enrollment. Student-teacher ratios are calculated from full-time equivalent (FTE) teacher counts reported by each school.

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