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American Charter Academy
Wasilla, Alaska
- NCES ID
- 020051000452
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
American Charter Academy is a public other school in Wasilla, Alaska, run by Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District. It enrols 186 students — the 79420th largest of 511 public schools in Alaska.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
186
Teachers
10.0
Students per teacher
18.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
1.6%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Mat-Su Central School2,254 students
- 2Colony High School1,117 students
- 3Wasilla High School848 students
- 4Palmer High School760 students
- 5Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High School743 students
- 6Colony Middle School735 students
- 7Teeland Middle School719 students
- 8Wasilla Middle School610 students
- Enrollment−1.1%
- Teachers−16.7%
- Students per teacher+24.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−96.5%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory