The Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District provides k-12

public education State schools (in England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand) or public schools (Scottish English and North American English) are generally primary or secondary schools that educate all students without charge. They are funded in whole or in pa ...

to the children of the

Ketchikan Gateway Borough Ketchikan Gateway Borough is a borough located in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census its population was 13,948, up from 13,477 in 2010. The borough seat is Ketchikan. The borough is the second most populous borough in Southeast A ...

and

Ketchikan Ketchikan ( ; tli, Kichx̱áan) is a city in and the borough seat of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough of Alaska. It is the state's southeasternmost major settlement. Downtown Ketchikan is a National Historic District. With a population at the 20 ...

Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S., ...

. The district is governed by a school board of seven community-elected members, with one advisory student member present during the school year, elected by the students of

Ketchikan High School Ketchikan High School, often referred to as Kayhi, is the principal high school for the Southeast Alaska community of Ketchikan and the Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District. See also * List of high schools in Alaska This is a list of hig ...

Schools

High schools

*Revilla Junior/Senior High school

Middle school

Schoenbar Middle School The Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District provides k-12 public education to the children of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough and Ketchikan, Alaska, Ketchikan, Alaska. The district is governed by a school board of seven community-elected members, w ...

Elementary schools

*Houghtaling Elementary School *Fawn Mountain Elementary School *Point Higgins Elementary School *Ketchikan Charter School *Tongass School of Arts & Sciences

World War II

The

Territory of Alaska The Territory of Alaska or Alaska Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from August 24, 1912, until Alaska was granted statehood on January 3, 1959. The territory was previously Russian America, 1784–1867; the ...

presented Alaska's Liberty brick to the Ketchikan Schools on

Pearl Harbor Day National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, also referred to as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day or Pearl Harbor Day, is observed annually in the United States on December 7, to remember and honor the 2,403 Americans who were killed in the Japanese surpri ...

, 1943 for having the best

Schools at War The American Schools at War program was a program during World War II run by the U.S. Treasury Department, in which schoolchildren set goals to sell stamps and bonds to help the war effort. The program was also administered by the U.S. Office of ...

performance in the territory in the previous school year. Each of Ketchikan's schools also received a Minute Man Flag. The brick, displayed in a glass case, was to be permanently belong to the Ketchikan Schools. As of 2021, it is in the collection of the

Tongass Historical Museum Tongass may refer to: * Fort Tongass * Tongass people, or Taantʼa Ḵwáan, "Sea Lion Tribe", one of the main divisions of the Tlingit people and the namesake of all other "Tongass" names. * Tongass Highway * Tongass Island * Tongass Narrows, a ...

References

External links

Official site
{{School Districts in Alaska School districts in Alaska Education in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska