Nome City School District
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The Nome City School District is a public school district
in Nome, Alaska
. It includes three schools, and has one of the highest efficiencies in Western Alaska.
School district
School districts are a form of special-purpose district which serves to operate the local public primary and secondary schools.-United States:...
in Nome, Alaska
Nome, Alaska
Nome is a city in the Nome Census Area in the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the southern Seward Peninsula coast on Norton Sound of the Bering Sea. According to the 2010 Census, the city population was 3,598. Nome was incorporated on April 9, 1901, and was once the...
. It includes three schools, and has one of the highest efficiencies in Western Alaska.
Public schools within the district
- Nome Elementary School, serves grades PK-6
- Nome-Beltz Junior/Senior High SchoolNome-Beltz Junior/Senior High SchoolNome-Beltz Junior/Senior High School is a middle and high-school in Nome, Alaska. It is located at the base of Anvil Mountain, close to the beginning of the Nome-Teller Highway. The mascot is the nanook, or polar bear...
, serves grades 7-12. - Anvil City Science Academy, a 5-8 charter magnetMagnet schoolIn education in the United States, magnet schools are public schools with specialized courses or curricula. "Magnet" refers to how the schools draw students from across the normal boundaries defined by authorities as school zones that feed into certain schools.There are magnet schools at the...
, is also part of the school district.