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Rank (of 45)	City	# Elementary Schools	# Middle Schools	# High Schools	# Alt. Schools	# Private Schools*	Rank score (2019)	Rank (2018)	Rank change from 2018
1^st	Petersburg	1	1	1	0	0	0.912	4	3
2^nd	Girdwood	1	0	0	0	0	0.849	1	1
3^rd	Haines	1	0	1	2	0	0.823	3
4^th	Eagle River	8	1	2	1	2	0.806	6	2
5^th	Kasilof	1	0	0	0	0	0.795	12	7
6^th	Elmendorf Afb	5	0	0	0	0	0.783	7	1
7^th	Willow	1	0	0	0	0	0.741	5	2
8^th	Unalaska	1	0	1	0	0	0.714	8
9^th	Wrangell	1	1	1	0	0	0.705	18	9
10^th	Delta Junction	1	1	1	2	3	0.694	13	3
11^th	Chugiak	1	1	1	0	1	0.689	9	2
12^th	Naknek	1	0	1	1	0	0.688	11	1
13^th	Seward	1	1	1	0	0	0.681	16	3
14^th	Fort Wainwright	1	0	0	0	0	0.667	36	22
15^th	Valdez	1	1	1	1	0	0.662	24	9
16^th	Homer	4	1	2	3	0	0.661	2	14
17^th	Kenai	4	1	3	0	1	0.607	15	2
18^th	Palmer	6	2	5	1	1	0.604	19	1
19^th	Eielson Afb	2	0	1	0	0	0.597	10	9
20^th	Talkeetna	1	0	1	0	0	0.597	30	10
21^st	Sitka	2	1	3	1	1	0.588	23	2
22^nd	Cordova	1	0	1	1	0	0.579	17	5
23^rd	Soldotna	4	1	2	2	1	0.563	26	3
24^th	Juneau	8	2	4	1	2	0.561	22	2
25^th	Anchor Point	1	0	0	0	0	0.54	14	11
26^th	Ketchikan	5	1	2	4	3	0.534	29	3
27^th	Wasilla	14	2	4	4	4	0.527	21	6
28^th	Kodiak	4	1	1	1	2	0.508	28
29^th	Glennallen	1	0	1	1	0	0.498	34	5
30^th	Fairbanks	17	3	5	4	8	0.467	27	3
31^st	Anchorage	51	10	15	7	11	0.437	32	1
32^nd	Craig	1	1	1	1	0	0.407	25	7
33^rd	Sterling	1	0	0	0	0	0.335	41	8
34^th	Nikiski	0	0	1	0	0	0.323	37	3
35^th	North Pole	2	1	2	0	1	0.302	35
36^th	Dillingham	1	0	1	1	1	0.298	39	3
37^th	Nome	1	1	2	1	0	0.284	38	1
38^th	Galena	1	0	2	0	0	0.269	33	5
39^th	Sutton	1	0	0	1	0	0.254	20	19
40^th	Big Lake	1	1	1	0	0	0.212	40
41^st	Metlakatla	2	1	1	0	0	0.163	42	1
42^nd	Aniak	1	0	1	0	0	0.162		(n/a)
43^rd	Kotzebue	1	0	1	1	1	0.107	43
44^th	Bethel	3	0	3	2	0	0.051	44
45^th	Barrow	1	1	2	0	0	0.046	45

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* Private schools are not used in determining city rank.
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These rankings were last updated on September 7, 2019, and are based on the most recent test scores available. We update rankings as we receive new test scores from the Alaska Department of Education, usually on a yearly basis.
Our sources of data include the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education and the Alaska Department of Education.
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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Alaska Department of Education. School Attendance Areas provided by ATTOM.