Southwest Region School District

School district in Alaska, United States

Southwest Region School District
Address
574 Kenny Wren Road Dillingham , Alaska, 99576 United States
District information
Type	Public
Grades	PreK–12^[1]
NCES District ID	0200710^[1]
Students and staff
Students	652^[1]
Teachers	57.45^[1]
Staff	124.45^[1]
Student–teacher ratio	11.35^[1]
Other information
Website	www.swrsd.org

Southwest Region School District (SWRSD) or Southwest Region Schools is a school district headquartered in Dillingham, Alaska.^[2] The district serves the area around Bristol Bay.^[3] Its communities are in the Dillingham Census Area.

History

Don Evans began his term as the district superintendent in 1993. In 1998 he left and founded Education Resources Inc., a company that provides administrative services to rural Alaska school districts. That year Education Resources Inc. began providing such services to the Southwest Region district. Marie Paul, a member of the Southwest Region board originating from Togiak, stated that the quality of administrative services remained the same.^[3]

In 1999 the school district had 775 students living in nine areas.^[3]

Schools

Aleknagik School - Aleknagik
Clarks Point School - Clarks Point - Due to declining enrollment, it closed in May 2012,^[4] but re-opened in 2017^[5]
William "Sonny" Nelson School - Ekwok
Koliganek School - Koliganek
Manokotak 'Nunaniq' School - Manokotak
"Chief" Ivan Blunka School - New Stuyahok
Togiak School - Togiak
Twin Hills School - Twin Hills

Former schools:

Portage Creek School - Portage Creek^[6]^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for Southwest Region School District". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved March 5, 2022.
^ Home. Southwest Region School District. Retrieved on March 26, 2017. "574 Kenny Wren Rd. P.O. Box 90 Dillingham, AK 99576"
^ ^a ^b ^c Shinohara, Rosemary (July 13, 1999). "Private Firm Runs Schools - Rural Districts Try New Management". Anchorage Daily News. p. A1.
^ "Clarks Point." Southwest Region School District. Retrieved on March 26, 2017.
^ "Clark's Point drawing families back to the village by reopening its school". August 17, 2017.
^ "Map of the Alaska School Districts (2013)." Alaska Department of Education. Retrieved on March 12, 2017.
^ "Portage Creek School." Alaska Department of Education. Retrieved on March 26, 2017.