About Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District
Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District is a public school system serving Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, based in Palmer. It serves 19,495 students across 49 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a suburb: small district. By enrollment it is the #2 largest of Alaska’s 53 school systems.
Size and structure
Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District enrolls 19,495 students in 49 schools — an average of about 398 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #2 of 53 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (19,495 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District employs about 1,015 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 19.2:1 — above the Alaska average of about 18.9:1. Total district staff is roughly 2,257.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Alaska funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Alaska’s ESSA accountability system, the System for School Success, uses AK STAR assessment results, growth, graduation, English-learner progress and attendance to assign support designations, published in the Report Card to the Public. Look up Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District on the Alaska Report Card to the Public.
Accreditation status
Alaska does not run a mandatory accreditation system for its public districts; accreditation is voluntary and generally handled by Cognia (formerly the Northwest Accreditation Commission). Look up Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District in the free Cognia registry.
Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District vs. Alaska
See every Alaska district side by side in the Alaska directory.
Look up Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):