School Bond Information

About the Anchorage School District's facilities…

• With over 7.5 million square feet of facilities the district's physical plant is the largest of any public entity in the state.
• Replacement value of district buildings exceeds $1.5 billion.
• The district has 99 facilities, housing approximately 50,000 students and 6,000 staff members.
• Anchorage educates approximately 40 percent of the total student population of the state.
• The inventory is aging. Sixty-three schools are 20 to 50 years old and eight are over 40 years old.

Why the district needs funding provided by the bonds…

• Building components wear out. Facility systems only last so long.
• Functional obsolescence. Over the life of a school, programmatic changes occur that require updating the facility infrastructure.
• Additional capacity to house the shifting student population.