Public school / Other
Top of the Kuskokwim School
Nikolai, Alaska
- NCES ID
- 020052000245
- District
- Iditarod Area School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Top of the Kuskokwim School is a public other school in Nikolai, Alaska, run by Iditarod Area School District. It enrols 14 students — the 95000th 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
14
Teachers
2.0
Students per teacher
7.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
21.4%
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 Iditarod Area 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.
- 1Distance Learning/Corresp. Ctr.154 students
- 2David Louis Memorial School35 students
- 3Mcgrath School32 students
- 4Jeffery A. Bader Memorial School25 students
- 5Innoko River School23 students
- 6Top of the Kuskokwim School14 students
- 7Blackwell School12 students
- 8Takotna Community School11 students
- Enrollment−92.6%
- Teachers−83.3%
- Students per teacher−53.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−53.5%
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