The top reported proficiency rate is 30% in Math. The lowest is 20% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Susan B English School
Susan B English School sits in Seldovia, a remote coastal community on the south side of Kachemak Bay that you can reach only by boat or plane. The town is tiny, compact enough to see on foot in a short walk, with a small boat harbor, a surviving stretch of historic wooden boardwalk, a handful of restaurants and shops, and a single grocery store. Commercial fishing and seasonal tourism anchor the local economy, and the Seldovia Village Tribe is a central civic presence. The town has no road connection to other communities and no malls. What you get is quiet, isolation, and a close-knit setting where the school and civic life share the same few blocks. Publicly reported sources describe a population that has been declining over decades, from a historical peak down to a small year-round resident base. The trajectory is stable-to-declining rather than growing, with no major new housing developments evident.
The school serves prekindergarten through twelfth grade under the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District. It is not a charter school. Enrollment is very small, with just a few students per grade in most years. Some grades have no students at all in a given year, which is typical of a school this size in a community this isolated. The student body reflects the community's makeup: a mix of white, Alaska Native, and multiracial students, with a smaller Hispanic and Black presence. A moderate share of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. Data on individualized education programs and English learners was not reported, so those populations cannot be characterized here.
State assessment results from the most recent year show a small group of tested students in grades three through eight. Math proficiency landed at roughly a third of the small tested group, and English language arts proficiency was lower, at about a fifth. Science results were suppressed because only two students were tested, which is a standard privacy protection at this scale rather than a reflection of performance. Because the tested group is so small, a single student's result shifts the proficiency rate substantially, making year-to-year comparisons unstable. The data is real but thin. A parent reading these numbers should understand that they describe a handful of children in a given year, not a stable trend. Participation was full among those tested.
No graduation rate, course access, staffing, discipline, or attendance data was available for this school. For a single-site school serving all grades in a community of this size, that absence is common. No program offerings were reported, and no neighbor comparison was provided. No civil rights data was included. The district brief for Kenai Peninsula Borough School District did not surface parent-relevant changes from the last several years, so there is nothing to pass along on that front.
Housing in Seldovia runs below both state and national benchmarks for typical home values, which aligns with the remote, off-road character of the place. Rent data was not available. The price-to-income ratio suggests that buying a home here is relatively attainable compared with many parts of Alaska, though financing and insurance in a boat-or-plane-only community carry their own practical hurdles that the numbers alone do not capture.
What this school offers is a small, multi-age environment in one of the most isolated communities on the Kenai Peninsula. A child here will grow up knowing every classmate, with the harbor and the boardwalk as an extension of the schoolyard. The tradeoff is limited peer groups, thin academic data because of sheer scale, and a community that has been slowly shrinking. For a family drawn to Seldovia by fishing, tribal ties, or a desire for deep remoteness, the school is part of that package. For a family weighing academic breadth or a larger social circle, those are areas where a parent may want to look into this further with the school and the district.
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