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Capital Improvement Plan, 2003-2009II. School Facilities and Educational StructureReturn to Table of Contents The Anchorage School District (District) operates and maintains the largest physical plant of any public entity in the state, with over 7 million square feet of facilities. The replacement value of District buildings exceeds $1.2 billion. The District has 94 facilities, eighty-two of which are District-managed facilities and twelve non-District facilities, housing in excess of 49,000 students and 5,000 staff members. Fifty-eight elementary schools are organized K-6, while Chugiak and Fire Lake elementary schools are organized K-5. Aurora, Mt. Spurr, and Orion elementary schools are located on Elmendorf Air Force Base. Ursa Major and Ursa Minor elementary schools are located on Fort Richardson Army Post. Due to a decline in enrollment on Fort Richardson, Kennedy Elementary School was closed at the end of the 1999-2000 school year. However, it is housing the Denali Elementary School students during the 2002-2003 school year while that school is being replaced. Two elementary schools have a K-8 organizational pattern: Northern Lights ABC and Girdwood K-8 School. Central, Clark, Goldenview, Gruening, Hanshew, Mears, Romig, and Wendler middle schools are organized 7–8. Mirror Lake Middle School is organized 6-8. Bartlett, Chugiak, Dimond, East, Service and West senior high schools are organized 9–12. Polaris K-12 School, an alternative elementary/secondary program, is organized K–12. However, this CIP analysis places the Polaris K-6 in the elementary category and the Polaris 7-12 in the secondary category. Steller Alternative secondary program is organized 7–12. Two other alternative secondary programs are organized 9–12: Benny Benson SAVE and AVAIL. Benny Benson SAVE is housed at the Benny Benson building, while AVAIL is housed at the Fifth Avenue Mall. SEARCH, an alternative secondary program that is organized 7-8, is also housed at the Benny Benson building. SAVE, another alternative secondary program, is organized 10-12 and is housed in its own facility. In addition, a new program is opening in February 2003, ASD Continuation Program, serving 7-12 grade students, housed in mall space on International Airport Road. Special Education services are offered in all elementary and secondary schools in the District. Two school facilities, Mt. Iliamna on Elmendorf Air Force Base, and Whaley School are dedicated to serving students with disabilities. In the 1997-98 school year, three charter schools became part of the Anchorage School District: Aquarian, Family Partnership, and Walden Pond Charter School. In 1998-99, the Village Charter School began operations. Due to enrollment problems Walden Pond closed in December 2000. Two new charter schools, Highland Tech High and Frontier Charter School, have been approved to open in 2003-04. In addition, the District operates three state contract programs: Alaska School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Providence Heights, and McLaughlin Youth Center. The District also operates special educational programs for students in six residential facilities; Jesse Lee Home, Maplewood, Booth Memorial, McKinley Heights, Charter North Hospital, and North Star Hospital. Elementary schools feed into middle schools, and middle schools feed into high schools. Although it is always a goal of boundary setting to place a feeder school within the boundary of only one higher level school (i.e., elementary to middle school or middle school to high school), this is not always possible. The following listing shows those secondary schools that are located within each high school attendance area, and the percentage of the school’s enrollment that attends that high school (if there are split boundaries).
The following listing shows those elementary schools that are located within each middle school attendance area, and the percentage of the school's enrollment that attends that middle school (if there are split boundaries).
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