Summary:
Anchorage Independent has one school, Anchorage Independent Public School, serving students in pre-K through grade 8. It enrolls 392 students and reports a student–teacher ratio of 9.9 in 2024–2025. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 2%, compared with 24% statewide. The clearest strength is math: the school scored above Kentucky’s same-grade proficiency rates in all six reported grades, with advantages ranging from 20 to 49 percentage points.
The strongest individual result was sixth-grade math, where 91% were proficient compared with 42% statewide—a 49-point advantage; seventh-grade math was 87% versus 39%, a 48-point lead. Eighth-grade reading also stood out at 83% versus 40%, a 43-point advantage. The smallest lead among reported results was in third-grade reading: 53% versus 49%, or 4 points. Across reported grades, the school’s average advantage was 40 points in math and 28 points in reading. Its 2025–2026 dropout rate was 0%, compared with 1% statewide.
Results remained above state figures in every subject-and-grade comparison available in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, but the school’s average across those 10 comparisons declined from 84% to 76%, and its average lead narrowed from 39 to 32 points. SchoolDigger ranked the school 1 of 685 in 2024–2025, compared with 48 of 684 in 2025–2026; it ranked 3 of 685 in 2023–2024. Separately, SchoolDigger gave the Anchorage Independent district five stars and a rank of 2 of 158. As additional context, 8% of the school’s students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; the available data do not compare that measure with other schools.
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