Raven School, Fairbanks AK - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Raven School

Raven School sits in Fairbanks, the regional service and supply center for Interior Alaska. The city blends a compact downtown along the Chena River with low-density residential neighborhoods, military installations at Fort Wainwright and Eielson Air Force Base, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus on a hill northwest of the core. The economy runs on mining, tourism, the university, the military, and oil industry support tied to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Fairbanks is car-dependent outside the downtown riverfront, with civic life anchored by places like Pioneer Park, Creamer's Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge, and the Alaska Railroad's northern terminus. The housing market here is relatively affordable compared with state and national benchmarks, with home values well below the Alaska statewide figure and rents taking up a modest share of household income. The borough has seen steady population supported by military presence and energy-sector activity, and the median age runs young, reflecting the military and university populations.

Raven School is a large, pre-kindergarten-through-twelfth-grade school operating within the Yukon-Koyukuk School District. Its enrollment is substantial for an Alaska school spanning all grade levels, with students distributed fairly evenly across grades and a noticeable senior class. The student body is majority white, with a strong representation of American Indian and Alaska Native students and a meaningful share of multiracial students. The school does not carry charter or magnet status. Free-or-reduced-price lunch data was not reported, so the economic profile of the student body from that angle is not available here. Information on special education and English learner populations was also missing from the data we received.

On state assessments, Raven School shows mixed proficiency. In English language arts, roughly two-fifths of tested students reached proficiency, which sits below where most families would want to see a school but is not unusual for a large, broad-serving school in Alaska. Math proficiency was somewhat lower, with about a third of tested students meeting the bar. Science was the relative bright spot, with close to half of tested students demonstrating proficiency. Average scale scores were not reported, so there is no finer-grained picture of how students cluster within or below the proficient range.

One feature of the testing data stands out and warrants attention. Participation rates on the state assessments were very low across all three subjects, with only a small fraction of enrolled students actually tested. This could reflect the school's geography, its student population, or testing logistics, and it means the proficiency figures may represent only a slice of the student body rather than the whole. A parent considering this school may want to ask the administration directly about why participation was so limited and what the full academic picture looks like for students who did not test.

We looked for the district's recent strategic priorities, referenda, curriculum shifts, or other parent-relevant changes and found little that surfaced publicly, so that context is left out rather than guessed. No civil-rights reporting data, course-access details, staffing figures, or discipline information was available in the data provided, which limits the picture of school climate and program offerings. Program offerings were not reported either, so families would need to contact the school directly to understand what is available in areas like advanced coursework, career and technical education, extracurriculars, or support services.

Raven School's identity is shaped by its full grade span and its place in a community where military families, university-connected households, and long-time Alaska residents all intersect. For a parent, the open question is whether the academic results, the testing participation pattern, and the unreported program details align with what their child needs. The school's science results are encouraging, the English results are middling, and the math results trail those. The low participation rate is the single most important thing to investigate before drawing firm conclusions about overall academic quality.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

61.0%Cohort of 278 students · Class of 2021

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

168 schools plotted. 79 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grades 3-835%

School 35% · District 23% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▲ 3 pts above state median · even with county median

English language arts

Grades 3-839%

School 39% · District 26% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

Science

Grades 3-845%

School 45% · District 27% · ▲ 18 pts above district

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

This schoolYukon-Koyukuk School District, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income19%Higher-income45%26 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income50%Higher-income27%23 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income22%Higher-income50%28 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income64%Higher-income52%11 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income25%Higher-income47%22 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income11%Higher-income57%46 pp gap

Grades 3-8Lower-income30%Higher-income46%16 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income14%Higher-income40%26 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income50%Higher-income40%10 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income24%Higher-income48%24 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income25%Higher-income43%18 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income27%Higher-income53%27 pp gap

Grades 3-8Lower-income25%Higher-income42%17 pp gap