Relocating to the Anchorage School District

The Anchorage School District is the only school district in the Municipality of Anchorage that serves Girdwood, Anchorage, Chugiak, Eagle River.

For more information about relocating to the Anchorage area check the Municipality's Newcomer's Guide to Anchorage or find services in your area with the MyNeighborhood tool.

	Schools and Boundaries			Health Services and Immunizations
	Bus schedules			Meals
	School day schedules			Winter Weather
	About the district and our schools			Additional questions
	Registering at the school

Schools and Boundaries

If you are looking to see which schools are in particular area of town or you know the address of where you will be living and want to determine which school your child will be attending, we have three resources:

If you have questions about school boundaries, contact our Demographics Department at 907-348-5190. Please have your physical address handy.

Bus schedules

Bus schedules are available online and are frequently updated. Contact the the Transportation office at 907-742-1200 for questions. The Student Transportation site also has information on safety rules, items not allowed on the bus and which musical instruments are allowed.

School day schedules

The school day schedule can be found here. School year calendars, that show holidays and testing dates can be found here.

About the district and our schools

Once you know what school your child will be attending, you'll want to learn more about it. Or perhaps you'd like to know about a school first. Our Profile of Performance document has general district information as well as report cards with detailed information about each school. Additionally, many of our schools have web sites of their own that describes their day-to-day life. The Choices in Education section has descriptions of the different alternative programs that ASD offers. Our Demographics department has information about membership, ethnicity, and the Capital Improvement Plan.

• Choices in Education
• Demographics
• List of schools
• NCLB
• Parents & Students page
• Profile of Performance
• Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)

Registering at the school

When transferring your kids, you will need to bring to the school a copy of their transcript and a copy of their health record showing their immunizations. You can tell their current school that these records are for enrollment purposes only. After they are enrolled in a school here, the Anchorage school will contact the former school to have the official records sent directly from school to school.

It's important for high school students to not have a lot of time between withdrawing from their former school and enrolling here. Each of the days they are out of school is counted as an absence and our high schools have a strict attendance policy. Depending upon the school, that is anywhere from 8 (Bartlett and West because they use block scheduling) to 15 (the other four high schools) days. When a student reaches the maximum number of absences in any class they may not earn credit in that class.

Health Services and Immunizations

The Anchorage School District has specific immunization requirements that must be met before children can attend school. Our Health Services web site has more information about these requirements, including enrollment health forms.

Meals

Breakfast and lunch menus and information about free and reduced-price meals can be found here on our School Meal Information pages.

Winter Weather

Check here for information about dressing for the cold, elementary school recess, and the district's emergency closure procedures.

Additional questions

If you have more questions, please contact one of the departments below:

• Elementary Education, Linda Carlson at 907-742-4254 or carlson_linda@asdk12.org

• Middle School Education, Leslie Vandergaw at 907-742-4249 or vandergaw_leslie@asdk12.org

• High School Education, Mike Henry at 907-742-4256 or henry_mike@asdk12.org

• Special Education, Cindy Anderson at 907-742-3888 or anderson_cindy@asdk12.org

Military families

Military families new to our community will find the fact sheet below to be full of helpful information, including: suggestions for success, resources for student counseling or deployment related services, a telephone quick-reference guide and more. If you have questions or need further information, please contact the school liaison:

Brian Griggs School Liaison Services Phone: 907-240-3265 Fax: 907-384-1013

School Liaison Services fact sheet » (PDF)