Craig City School District

The Craig City School District in Alaska is home to four schools, including one elementary school, one middle school, one high school, and one alternative public virtual school. The district as a whole is performing well, with all schools ranked in the top half of their respective categories statewide and the district itself ranked 8th out of 24 in Alaska.

Among the standout schools in the district is PACE Correspondence, an alternative public virtual school with impressive test scores, particularly in mathematics, where 50% of students are proficient or better, outperforming the district and state averages. However, PACE Correspondence has a relatively high student-teacher ratio of 86:1. Craig Elementary is another high-performing school, consistently ranking in the top half of Alaska elementary schools and boasting strong test scores in science, English Language Arts, and mathematics. In contrast, Craig High School has shown improvement in its statewide ranking, moving from 43rd out of 62 schools in 2022-2023 to 27th out of 63 schools in 2023-2024, and its mathematics proficiency rate of 66.67% is significantly higher than the district and state averages.

The schools in the Craig City School District exhibit a wide range of spending per student, from $7,768 at PACE Correspondence to $28,619 at Craig High School, as well as varying student-teacher ratios. Additionally, Craig Elementary has the highest free and reduced lunch rate in the district at 124.47%, which may be an important factor to consider when analyzing the school's performance.