Pelican School
Pelican · AK · Pelican City School District · Public · K-12 combined
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Hoonah City School → Gustavus School → Angoon School → Chatham Correspondence → Johnson Youth Center → Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kale → HomeBRIDGE → Yaakoosge Daakahidi Alt. H.S. →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 14% of US high schools
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Pelican School compares for families
What families should know about Pelican School.
- ▸ 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: Hoonah City School, Gustavus School, Angoon School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: 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.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: A low chronic-absence rate is the cleanest school-level signal of strong family connection, classroom culture, and student engagement — all upstream drivers of enrollment stability. 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 -9.1%/year, projecting from 2024's 12 students:
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.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hoonah City School Hoonah |
Public | 30.4 | 31 | — |
| Gustavus School Gustavus |
Public | 37.0 | 18 | — |
| Angoon School Angoon |
Public | 68.2 | 25 | — |
| Chatham Correspondence Angoon |
Public | 68.2 | 5 | — |
| Johnson Youth Center Juneau |
Public | 69.0 | 10 | — |
| Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kale Juneau |
Public | 69.7 | 1,018 | +74.3% |
| HomeBRIDGE Juneau |
Public | 69.7 | 164 | +110.3% |
| Yaakoosge Daakahidi Alt. H.S. Juneau |
Public | 69.7 | 80 | +8.1% |