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High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12

Colony High School, Palmer, AK

Colony High School is a public high school in Palmer, part of Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District. It enrolled 1,046 students in 2024-25, with 20.5 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
1,046
Teachers (FTE)
51.0
Students per teacher
20.5
Grades
9 to 12

This school's ratio is 1.3 higher than the district figure of 19.2. The Alaska average across schools is 19.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school20.5
District19.2
Alaska19.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
9550 E Bogard Rd, Palmer, AK 99645
County
Matanuska-Susitna Borough
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Rural: Fringe
NCES school ID
020051000711
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
282
Reduced-price lunch
45
Free or reduced-price lunch
32731.3% of enrollment.
Direct certification
203Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other high schools in Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.