Regular local school district · Sitka City and Borough
Sitka School District, AK: schools, enrollment and spending
Sitka School District runs 6 public schools with 1,080 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 13.7 students per teacher is 5.5 lower than the Alaska figure of 19.2.
At a glance
- Schools
- 6
- Students
- 1,080
- Teachers (FTE)
- 79
- Students per teacher
- 13.7
- AK: 19.2 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 300 Kostrometinoff St, Sitka, AK 99835
- Phone
- (907)747-8622
- County
- Sitka City and Borough
- Locale
- Town: Remote
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 0200240
- State district ID
- AK-42
- Total staff (FTE)
- 165
- School counselors (FTE)
- 5.0About 216 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 11.0
Students per teacher compared
This district13.7
Alaska19.2
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (1,151), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $28.9 million
- Federal revenue
- $3.1 million
- State revenue
- $16.8 million
- Local revenue
- $9.0 million
- Total spending
- $27.1 million
- Spending per pupil
- $23,578
- Salaries
- $12.4 million45.7% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $14.6 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 10.8%
- State: 58.1%
- Local: 31.0%
Alaska overall
- Federal: 16.5%
- State: 62.2%
- Local: 21.3%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$23,578
Alaska$21,336
United States$16,826
Schools in Sitka School District
By level: 2 high, 1 middle, 2 elementary, 1 other. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Blatchley Middle School | Middle | 6 to 8 | 241 | 14.2 |
| Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary | Elementary | 2 to 5 | 275 | 13.8 |
| Pacific High School | High | 9 to 12 | 40 | 8.0 |
| Sitka High School | High | 9 to 12 | 305 | 15.2 |
| Sitka REACH | Other | K to 12 | 82 | |
| Xoots Elementary School | Elementary | PK to 1 | 137 | 9.1 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Sitka City and Borough
- Mount Edgecumbe 422 students
More in Alaska
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.