Summary:
Valdez City School District has just one high school, Valdez High School, which enrolls 175 students in grades 9 through 12 in the small coastal community of Valdez, Alaska. The student–teacher ratio is 13.1, and about a third of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Because enrollment is small, individual grade cohorts contain roughly 40 to 45 students, so proficiency rates can swing noticeably from year to year.
Academically, Valdez High School shines brightest in science. On the 2025–2026 10th-grade science assessment, 61.11% of students were proficient, compared with Alaska's statewide average of 33.03%. Ninth-grade math is also above the state norm, with 28.13% proficient versus 17.91% statewide. English language arts is the area of concern: just 20.69% of 9th graders met proficiency, while Alaska's average was 31.23%. By contrast, the school's 2024–2025 graduation rate of 89.7% easily tops the district average of 85.3%.
Valdez High School currently ranks 21st of 62 Alaska high schools, giving it a 66th-percentile standing and 3 stars. That is below its 2024–2025 rank of 12th (4 stars, 80th percentile) but a clear improvement over 2023–2024, when it ranked 36th (2 stars). Valdez City School District itself earns 3rd place out of 23 districts with a 5-star rating, which points to strong achievement in the district's elementary and middle grades as well. For parents, the overall picture is encouraging: science and math outperform state averages, and graduation is solid. The clearest opportunity is 9th-grade literacy. Given the small cohorts, these scores should be read as helpful signals rather than precise measures of student success.
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