Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8
Palmer Middle School, Palmer, AK
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 563
- Teachers (FTE)
- 29.0
- Students per teacher
- 19.4
- Grades
- 6 to 8
This school's ratio is about the same as 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.
School details
- Address
- 1159 S Chugach, Palmer, AK 99645
- Phone
- (907)761-4300
- County
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Small
- NCES school ID
- 020051000544
School meals
- Free lunch
- 211
- Reduced-price lunch
- 39
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 25044.4% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 176Students 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 middle schools in Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District
- Wasilla Middle School 584 students
- Houston Middle School 318 students
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.