The Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District provides k-12

public education A state school, public school, or government school is a primary school, primary or secondary school that educates all students without charge. They are funded in whole or in part by taxation and operated by the government of the state. State-f ...

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 Al ...

and

Ketchikan Ketchikan ( ; ) is a city in and the borough seat of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough on Revillagigedo Island of Alaska. It is the state's southeasternmost major settlement. Downtown Ketchikan is a National Historic Landmark District. With a po ...

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. 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. Notable Alumni * Isaac Updike, professional steeplechaser * Rud ...

Schools

High schools

*Revilla Junior/Senior High school

Middle school

* Schoenbar Middle School

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 territories of the United States, organized incorporated territory of the United States from August 24, 1912, until Alaska was granted statehood on January 3, 1959. 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 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 in

References

External links

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