High · Alaska
Houston High School
Free meals for allHouston High School, a public high school in Big Lake, Alaska: grades 9–12, 337 students, 13.5 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Matanuska-Susitna Borough 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
- 337
- Teachers (FTE)
- 25.0
- Students per teacher
- 13.5
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 54% of high schools in Alaska
Median 14.6 · 71 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 57% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 65% of high schools in Alaska
Median 211 · 72 schools compared
Smaller than 56% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Distant rural area
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District.
Location
- Address
- 12501 W Hawk Lane, Big Lake, AK 99652
- Phone
- (907)892-9400
- City or town
- Houston
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Joe Redington Senior Jr/Sr High SchoolFree meals for all | 6–12 | 497 | 16.0 |
Burchell High SchoolAlternativeFree meals for all | 9–12 | 200 | 16.7 |
| 9–12 | 816 | 18.0 | |
Mat-Su Career & Tech Ed High SchoolCareer and technical | 9–12 | 705 | 16.7 |
| 9–12 | 928 | 23.2 | |
| 8–12 | 222 | 111.0 |
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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