Public school / Middle
Hanshew Middle School
Anchorage, Alaska
- NCES ID
- 020018000534
- District
- Anchorage School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Hanshew Middle School is a public middle school in Anchorage, Alaska, run by Anchorage School District. It enrols 691 students — the 19900th 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
691
Teachers
27.0
Students per teacher
25.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
42.3%
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 Anchorage 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.
- 1West High School1,763 students
- 2Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School1,745 students
- 3Family Partnership Charter School1,740 students
- 4Service High School1,544 students
- 5Dimond High School1,443 students
- 6Bartlett High School1,373 students
- 7South Anchorage High School1,318 students
- 8Chugiak High School905 students
- Enrollment+267.6%
- Teachers+125.0%
- Students per teacher+70.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−8.0%
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