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Capital Improvement Plan, 2005-2011II. School Facilities and Educational StructureReturn to Table of ContentsThe 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 95 facilities, eighty-three 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, and has been used as temporary housing for other schools undergoing renovation projects. 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, Eagle River High (scheduled to open fall 2005), East, Service, South (new this year) 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. Three other alternative secondary programs are organized 9–12: AVAIL, Benny Benson SAVE, and Crossroads. AVAIL is housed at the Fifth Avenue Mall, Benny Benson SAVE is housed at the Benny Benson building, while Crossroads is housed at the Success by 6 building in Mt. View. 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, the ASD Continuation Program, serving students in grades 7-12, is 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 (K-6), Family Partnership (K-12), and Walden Pond Charter School. In 1998-99, the Village Charter School (K-8) began operations. Due to enrollment problems Walden Pond closed in December 2000 and Village Charter School closed in December 2004. Two new charter schools, Highland Tech High (9-11) and Frontier Charter School (K-12), opened in 2003-04. Eagle Academy and Winterberry charter schools are scheduled to open in 2005-06. 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, 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 Middle and area-wide schools that are located within each high school attendance area. It also includes the percentage of the Middle and area-wide school’s enrollment that lives in the boundary of 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 elementary school’s enrollment that lives in that middle school boundary (if there are split boundaries).
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