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The James W. Dalton Highway, usually referred to as the Dalton Highway (and signed as Alaska Route 11), is a 414-mile (666 km) [1] road in Alaska. It begins at the Elliott Highway , north of Fairbanks , and ends at Deadhorse (an unincorporated community within the CDP of Prudhoe Bay ) near the Arctic Ocean and the Prudhoe Bay Oil Fields .
Schools in rural Alaska must have at least 10 students to retain funding from the state. For the 2009–2010 school year, however, Nikolski School had only nine students. This threatened the school's existence, [ 12 ] [ 13 ] and it closed after the conclusion of the 2009–2010 school year. [ 14 ]
Many school districts in Alaska are directly under borough and municipal governments. There are also regional educational attendance areas, school districts which cover areas not in a borough nor in a municipality. Elected school boards govern these school districts, but the state government completely funds these districts.
School name Location Grade range ASAA 2014 en-rollment Connections: Soldotna: K–12 — 336 Cooper Landing School: Cooper Landing: K–12 — 1 Homer Flex School: Homer: 9–12 — 26 Homer High School: Homer: 9–12: 3A: 437 Hope School: Hope: P–12: 1A: 7 Kachemak Selo School: Fritz Creek: P–12: 1A: 17 Kenai Alternative High School: Kenai ...
Cruise ports line the coast of Alaska, from Ketchikan in the south, dubbed "the salmon capital of the world," to more northern cities like Juneau, where glaciers and whale-watching abound.
A replacement facility, named Main School and now known as Fairbanks City Hall, opened on January 22, 1934. Additional schools began opening circa the 1940s and 1950s. [5] For the 2011–2012 school year, enrollment in the district was 14,260. For the 2021–2022 school year, enrollment was 12,268, down 14% from the 2011–2012 school year. [6]
Aleutians East Borough School District (AEBSD) is a school district headquartered in Sand Point, Alaska. Several smaller school districts consolidated into the AEBSD, which opened in 1988. [ 2 ] Most of the schools were previously in the Aleutian Region School District , and that of King Cove was in its own school district.
Secondary schools (grades 6–12) Aniak Junior Senior High School (Aniak) George Morgan Sr. High School (Upper Kalskag) Elementary schools Joseph & Olinga Gregory Elementary School (Kalskag) (grades PK-2) Zackar Levi Elementary School (Lower Kalskag) (grades 3–5) Auntie Mary Nicoli Elementary School (Aniak) (grades PK-5) Rural schools K-12