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west of

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, are within the district's physical boundaries.

History

Previously areas of the

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were served by schools directly operated by the

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and by Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools.Barnhardt, Carol.
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. Retrieved on March 13, 2017. This included all areas of the Aleutian Islands not located in any city. The state schools were transferred to the Alaska State-Operated School System (SOS) after the

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created it in 1971; that agency was terminated in 1975, with its schools transferred to the newly created Alaska Unorganized Borough School District, which was broken apart into twenty-one school districts the following year. At that time the Alaska Legislature created the ARSD. Previously the district's mailing address was to Unalaska, where its headquarters was designated. Aleutian Region had been contracting administrative services from the Unalaska City School District, using the superintendent as its superintendent. Around 1999 the Anchorage company Education Resources Inc. began providing administrative services to Aleutian Region; the district switched because Unalaska City decided to not continue providing administrative services to Aleutian Region.

Schools

It operates two schools: Adak School and Yakov E. Netsvetov School in Atka. Adak was served by the Adak Region School District until it closed in June 1996. ARSD formerly operated the Nikolski School. The school was constructed in 1939 by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Schools in rural Alaska must have at least 10 students to retain funding from the state. For the 2009-2010 school year, however, Nikolski School had only nine students. This threatened the school's existence, and it closed after the conclusion of the 2009-2010 school year. The district previously operated schools in Akutan,

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, False Pass, Nelson Lagoon, Sand Point, and Squaw Harbor.''Aleutian Islands, Aleutian Peninsula Debris Removal: Environmental Impact Statement''.

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Several of these areas are now a part of the

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Demographics

In 2014 the Adak School had 25 students.Super Seabirds, Super Kids!
" ''The Adak Eagle's Call''. Volume 3, Issue 4, May 2014. p. 3/3. Retrieved on March 15, 2017. In 1999 the district had 50 students in three schools. Circa October 1978 the district had 252 students. At the time the Akutan School had 12 students, the Atka School had 22 students, the Cold Bay school had 37 students, the False Pass school had 8 students, the Nelson Lagoon school had 18 students, the Nikolski school had 15 students, the Sand Point school had 136 students, and the Squaw Valley School had 4 students.''Aleutian Islands, Aleutian Peninsula Debris Removal: Environmental Impact Statement''.

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Circa October 1978 the district had three teachers/specialists who rotated through very rural islands. That year Sand Point school itself had 13 teachers. There were two teachers each at the schools in Atka, Cold Bay, and Nelson Lagoon. The others each had a single teacher.

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