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Alaska State School for Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Anchorage · AK · Anchorage School District · Public · K-12 combined

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Programs & features
  • ✅ Gifted & talented program
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 14% of US high schools
  • 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 1% by test-taker volume

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Alaska State School for Deaf and Hard of Hearing compares for families

What families should know about Alaska State School for Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

  • LocallyAK sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Highland Academy Charter, Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School, Whaley School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21

Bottom 1% by test-taker volume

50th 90th
SAT/ACT test-takers
1
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
14.3
takers per 100 students in grades 9-12
Compared against
18,426
US high schools reporting SAT/ACT participation

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.

Chronic absenteeism

Share of students absent 15+ days
16.0%
Roughly average. The national post-COVID rate climbed to ~16% nationwide; this school is in the middle of the pack.
Students absent 15+ days
4
Federal definition: absent (excused or unexcused) for at least 15 of ~180 school days — about 10% of the school year.

Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the strongest early indicator of dropout, transfer-out, and family disengagement. A school's absenteeism trend forecasts its enrollment trend 1-3 years out. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of -6.9%/year, projecting from 2024's 25 students:

2025
23
2027
20
2029
17

A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.

An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.

Nearby high schools — the local competition

The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
Highland Academy Charter
Anchorage
Public · charter 0.0 107 +4.9%
Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School
Anchorage
Public 1.1 1,636 -6.9%
Whaley School
Anchorage
Public 1.4 253 -8.7%
Martin Luther King Jr. Technical High School
Anchorage
Public 1.9 124 +1.6%
Alaska Middle College School
Eagle River
Public 1.9 272 +8.4%
McLaughlin Secondary School
Anchorage
Public 2.0 71 +36.5%
Bartlett High School
Anchorage
Public 3.0 1,413 +0.7%
Polaris K-12 School
Anchorage
Public 3.3 141 +2.9%

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