Public school / Primary / Charter
Watershed Charter School
Fairbanks, Alaska
- NCES ID
- 020060000742
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Watershed Charter School is a public primary school in Fairbanks, Alaska, run by Fairbanks North Star Borough School District. It enrols 198 students — the 78213th 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
198
Teachers
9.0
Students per teacher
22.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
7.6%
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 Fairbanks North Star 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.
- 1West Valley High School906 students
- 2Lathrop High School886 students
- 3Fairbanks B.E.S.T.801 students
- 4North Pole High School617 students
- 5Tanana Middle School545 students
- 6Ryan Middle School543 students
- 7North Pole Middle School531 students
- 8Arctic Light Elementary467 students
- Enrollment+5.3%
- Teachers−25.0%
- Students per teacher+46.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−83.5%
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