Circle, AK schools
Circle’s public schools score well below Alaska’s averages: 7.5% of students are proficient in reading against 39.5% statewide, and 75% of high schoolers graduate on time against 79.1%.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Circle’s School Grade: D-
The public schools Circle’s kids attend trail 98% of Alaska’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Alaska’s state tests, each against the state average. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Alaska only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Alaska with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Well below the state in reading
75% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
The district serving Circle
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Circle
There’s no college within 30 miles of Circle. The closest is University of Alaska Fairbanks in College, AK, 122.9 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Circle. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus.
All 1 school in Circle
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.