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There are 59 school districts or service agencies in Alaska that hire certified teachers and administrators. All are members of Alaska Teacher Placement, and list openings with the ATP Job Bank.
Alaska’s approximately 500 public schools are organized within 55 school districts. These include 34 city and borough school districts and 19 Regional Educational Attendance Areas. REAAs serve students living in towns and villages in politically unorganized areas of rural Alaska. Alaska definitions of “city” and “borough” are not necessarily indicative of an urban setting, but refer to form of political organization.
Alaska schools vary greatly in size. High schools in Anchorage, the state’s largest city, may serve more than 2,000 students. Schools in other urban areas such as Juneau, Fairbanks, the Kenai Peninsula, or the Matanuska-Susitna Valley may serve hundreds and are similar to schools in small cities in the rest of the United States.
Many schools in rural areas are small, some with 20 or fewer students at a variety of grade levels.
Note: Although the state boarding school in Sitka, Mt. Edgecumbe High School, is included in the total of 55, a number of statewide correspondence schools are operated directly by districts, and are therefore not counted as separate districts themselves.
The “road system” in the state includes only a small portion of the state. Use the About Alaska page to learn more.
Because the state is so geographically diverse, it's a good idea to use a map to understand a little more about where each is located. You can use the map below to locate Alaska's school districts. All but six have at least some type of website, and we've linked their names to each district's main page.
A school district's website is potentially an excellent way to get a feel what life is like for teachers and administrators working there now. Look for clues about what each organization stresses in its programs, approaches and interactions with the public.
| Alaska School Districts - Locations & Website Links |
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School Districts Without Websites
The following districts had no website at either their old web address, or at the location specified in the Alaska Department of Education database:
By far, the most common request for information we get at Alaska Teacher Placement is from candidates asking about Alaska's pay scale.
Myth Number 1: You will get rich as a teacher in Alaska! Unlike some parts of the country, Alaska's school districts are all responsible for reaching agreement with an official bargaining unit representing the teachers in that district. There is no state pay scale. Each district sets its own in agreement with a union - either local NEA, or AFT associations in most cases.
There was a time when school districts in Alaska paid teachers significantly more that other parts of the country, and offered many recruitment incentives. Those days are gone. Salaries are somewhere in the middle of the pack when adjusted for cost of living, and only in the top third in raw dollars.
District hiring incentives, such as moving allowances, roundtrip airfare for teachers and their dependents from Anchorage, free or almost free housing, and signing bonuses - all of which were frequently part of the packages teachers signed 12 - 20 years ago - simply don't exist in today's changed economic climate.
Districts still try to help reduce taxable income with subsidized housing, “cafeteria” medical expense plans, and other strategies. They offer good insurance plans, decent pay, much better housing, and meaningful staff development.
If you are primarily seeking to teach in Alaska for financial consideration, you should look more closely at Michigan, Pennsylvania, Connecticutt, California and several other states.
That doesn't mean teachers are suffering hardship in Alaska. They are, for the most part, paid a living wage in the majority of districts.
Melissa Hill, ATP Director, requested that each ATP member district send us a copy of their salary schedule, and/or negotiated agreement.
We did get a wide range of paper responses, mostly, and have converted those to PDF format.
Use caution in interpreting these salary scales. Raw numbers don't tell the entire tale!Many districts differ in how many years service credit can be use in placement. Some allow new teachers to the district to be placed with a maximum of either six years (BA/BS), 8 years (M.Ed), or 10 years (PhD/EdD) of experience, depending on highest earned degree. At least one district has recently started disallowing all service credit. Bering Strait School District has a longevity bonus of $3,000 (for 3 years), $7,500 (for 5 years), and $14,000 (7 years).
So, make sure you ask during your interview about the district's policy on prior experience, and other salary details. Of course, if you're a newly minted teacher, prior experience policy doesn't much matter 
We hope that the data here gives you at least some rough idea of Alaska pay scales for districts.
Note: If you have a salary schedule for a district, or a negotiated agreement you would like to add, fax it to us toll free for posting here:
Notice: This is a wiki website. Anyone can post here, and ATP is not responsible for changes, updates or information related to changes in school district salary schedules, or benefit information. The job applicant is responsible to verify all salary and benefit information with a potential employer.
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Anchorage
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Note: Two salary schedules for Anchorage teachers, but not sure what the difference is between the two.
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Annette Island
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Bering Strait
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Bristol Bay
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| Denali | ||
| Dillingham | ||
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| Hoonah | ||
| Hydaburg | ||
| Iditarod | ||
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| Klawock | ||
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| Nome | ||
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Some other lists of districts and contact information for Alaska school districts:
More links will be added here. If you would like to suggest or correct a link, please email us.
Want to Contribute?
Since the ATP website uses a wiki database engine, you can add links that you think are good by simply creating an account, and directly editing any page yourself!
Adding your links, resources and suggestions to the ATP website is quite easy once you give it a try, and you won't break anything. You can even create new pages, and upload pictures.
Together we can build a better website, and a social network of Alaska teachers, administrators and job candidates helping each other!
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