Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District

What the Numbers Say About Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District

Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District is a small school district in Alaska, serving 2,156 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $23,651. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $123,019, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0200150 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Alaska statewide average of $96,275, teacher pay in Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 27.8% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (49.5% differential). Among enrolling districts in Alaska, it pays more than 58% of them. Licensing reciprocity, collective bargaining strength, and state aid formulas all contribute to where a district lands in these tiers.

On the budget side, Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District reports $51.0M in total expenditure against $51.7M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 35% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. These figures are district-level aggregates from F-33, not individual contracts — step-and-column schedules, stipends, and collectively-bargained differentials sit underneath these totals.