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Released October 31, 2026, in the SY 2025 (School Year 2024 - 2025) cycle. Figures are as of the release.

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File number
02
Version
2.0
Voj voog
SY 2025 (School Year 2024 - 2025)
Tau tshaj tawm
October 31, 2026
Next scheduled re-audit
Not yet scheduled

Cite this version

National Deaf Education Data Index, Alaska state file version 2.0, SY 2025 (School Year 2024 - 2025), released October 31, 2026, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23323587, https://www.ndedi.org/hmn/states/ak/v2.0/

Other citation styles
National Deaf Education Data Index, Alaska state file version 2.0, SY 2025 (School Year 2024 - 2025), released October 31, 2026, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23323587, https://www.ndedi.org/hmn/states/ak/v2.0/

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Alaska does not run a separate state school for deaf students. Its school for the deaf is a program inside the Anchorage School District, the Alaska State School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, which teaches in both American Sign Language and spoken and written English and served about 29 students, ages 3 to 21, in early 2025. Anchorage also runs a smaller listening-and-spoken-language program for young children. Four other districts show a deaf program or deaf staff on their websites: Fairbanks, Kenai, Lower Kuskokwim and Mat-Su.

Most of Alaska's 54 districts, especially small rural ones, publish nothing about deaf education, which does not prove there is no service, only that the public cannot find one. A statewide agency, SESA, offers outreach for deaf and hard of hearing students, and the Department of Health screens newborns for hearing loss. About 148 students statewide were counted with a hearing impairment on the date used here, and almost none are taught in a separate or residential school. In 2026 Alaska passed a deaf-education rights law, HB 39, with no money attached, and separately funded the SESA outreach agency.

In the same period the Anchorage district that runs the state deaf school cut that program's budget by about 8 percent during deep deficits. Alaska requires school interpreters to be certified or training toward it, but its state staffing file does not even list teachers of the deaf, though districts clearly employ them.

A summary of this version for any reader, written with the file. The figures and sources behind each sentence are in the sections below.

Coverage summary

  • NONE FOUND is a statement about publication, not about service delivery.
  • Obligations under IDEA are not evidence of a program.
  • 54Units in frameExhaustive frame
  • 54Readable subsetThe frame less NOT VERIFIABLE and NOT AUDITED: every unit whose pages were read
  • 0PROGRAM rows with a weak-evidence flag
Tallies by code, against the frame of 54 and the readable subset of 54
CodeUnitsPercent of framePercent of readable subset
PROGRAM59.3%9.3%
MENTION1120.4%20.4%
NONE FOUND3768.5%68.5%
NOT VERIFIABLE00.0%Outside the readable subset
NOT AUDITED00.0%Outside the readable subset
OUT OF FRAME00.0%0.0%
NOT OPERATING11.9%1.9%
Coverage codes against the frameEach bar counts the units carrying that code. The codes record what agencies publish, not what they do.
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Coverage codes against the frame
HomSuavShare of 54
PROGRAM59%
MENTION1120%
NONE FOUND3769%
NOT OPERATING12%

Shares are of the frame count, 54 units.As of October 31, 2026.

Tallies by agency typeFor each agency type, the units under each code, in the order the file first records the types.
  • PROGRAM
  • MENTION
  • NONE FOUND
  • NOT OPERATING
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Tallies by agency type
HomPROGRAMMENTIONNONE FOUNDNOT OPERATINGTotal
regular district51136153
state-operated school00101

As of October 31, 2026.

As of October 31, 2026, the release date of this version.

The two formulations

  • NONE FOUND is a statement about publication, not about service delivery.
  • Obligations under IDEA are not evidence of a program.