High · Alaska
Benny Benson Alternative High School
AlternativeFree meals for allBenny Benson Alternative High School, a public high school in Anchorage, Alaska: grades 9–12, 275 students, 19.1 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Anchorage School District.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 275
- Teachers (FTE)
- 14.4
- Students per teacher
- 19.1
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 75% of high schools in Alaska
Median 14.6 · 71 schools compared
More students per teacher than 79% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 58% of high schools in Alaska
Median 211 · 72 schools compared
Smaller than 62% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Alternative
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Rural area near a city
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Anchorage School District.
Location
- Address
- 4515 Campbell Airstrip Rd, Anchorage, AK 99507
- Phone
- (907)742-2050
- City or town
- Anchorage
- County
- Anchorage Municipality
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Highland Academy CharterCharter | 6–12 | 200 | 18.8 |
Bettye Davis East Anchorage High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,636 | 20.3 |
McLaughlin Secondary SchoolAlternative | 6–12 | 77 | 7.1 |
| 11–12 | 272 | 93.8 | |
Martin Luther King Jr. Technical High SchoolCareer and technical | 10–12 | 124 | 4.7 |
| 9–12 | 1,518 | 24.1 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level.
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