Government directory/Alaska/Dependent school system
U.S. Census government inventory · ID 227504

Alaska Gateway School District.

Dependent school system in Alaska.

Dependent school systemStateFunctioning
Useful public record

What this district governs—and how to participate.

Alaska Gateway is a regional K–12 public school system headquartered in Tok. Its elected regional board represents four geographic sections, and the state publishes both its election schedule and the schools serving its communities.

7board members published
6current school attendance areas
October 6, 2026next sourced board election
Who governs it
Lorraine L. TitusVice President · Seat A · Section I

Alcan Border, Northway, Tetlin

Elected 2025 · next ballot 2028 · term through 2028
Steven "Steve" B. RobbinsBoard Member · Seat B · Section I

Boundary, Chicken, Eagle

Elected 2024 · next ballot 2027 · term through 2027
Lisa K. ConradPresident · Seat C · Section II

Tok

Elected 2024 · next ballot 2027 · term through 2027
Shawn P. ChampagneSecretary / Treasurer · Seat D · Section II

Tok

Elected 2023 · next ballot 2026 · term through 2029
Daisy NorthwayBoard Member · Seat E · Section II

Tok

Elected 2024 · next ballot 2027 · term through 2027
Diana L. ErvinBoard Member · Seat F · Section II

Tok

Elected 2025 · next ballot 2028 · term through 2028
Meranda S. MoranBoard Member · Seat G · Section III

Dot Lake, Mentasta Lake, Tanacross

Elected 2023 · next ballot 2026 · term through 2029

Board seats and term cycle come from the Alaska Division of Elections; officer titles and public contacts come from the district directory. Sources were checked on August 30, 2026.

What voters decide next
Election dayOctober 6, 2026
Seat D · Section II3-year term

Tok

  • Shawn Pierre ChampagneCertified · incumbent
  • Ashley L. LaGrangeCertified
Seat G · Section III3-year term

Dot Lake, Dot Lake Village, Mentasta Lake, Tanacross

  • Richard L. ShultzWithdrawn
  • V. Anne EsmailkaCertified
See official candidates →
What voters decided last

Official 2025 REAA result.

The state reports 119 ballots cast from 1,865 registered voters across REAA 16.

Open certified result ↗
6.38%turnout
119ballots cast
1,865registered voters
Seat A · Section I29 votes

Lorraine L. Titus29

Write-in0

Seat F · Section II90 votes

Diana L. Ervin85

Write-in5

Official October 7, 2025 results. The turnout figure is districtwide; contest totals differ because board seats are elected by geographic section.

Meetings, decisions, and accountability

Follow what this board is doing—not just who sits on it.

The district publishes a live notice feed, a historical board-document library, annual audits, policies, and a public-records request form. Election.org separates the current material from older archives so a resident can see both the useful record and the missing decision trail.

35official source responses checkedVerified 2026-08-30
Latest dated board notice

August 31, 2026 Regional School Board meeting

Published by Christina Nelson. The district's official agenda image supplies the time, location, and scheduled business below. It does not provide a downloadable supporting packet or final minutes.

5:00 PM Alaska timeMentasta Lake Katie John School
What the board is scheduled to consider

Read the agenda before the meeting.

Open official agenda image ↗

Delegations and presentations

  • Introduction to Special Education Director Heather Pinder
  • Grant presentation
  • Biomass presentation

Routine approvals

  • Approval of agenda
  • Approval of June 15, 2026 board minutes
  • Approval of June 23, 2026 poll-vote minutes

Old business

  • Second reading of policies 5121.1, 9131, 9135, 9135.1, 9135.2, 9135.3, 9260, 9910, 9400, 9600, and 9873

New business

  • Approval of technology contractor
  • Approval of certified and classified hires
  • ARCTIC update and detail approval
  • Approval of Human Reproduction and Sexuality curriculum and instructors, as required under AS 14.30.36
  • Approval of FY27 district textbook and curriculum materials list
  • Approval of six-year capital improvement plan
  • Approval of temporary wage scale
  • Approval of donations
  • Approval of special-education contract for occupational- and physical-therapy services

Information and future business

  • Staff reports and Advisory School Board meeting minutes
  • Personnel resignations
  • Potential presence of UAF at Tok School
  • ANSEP Acceleration Academy
  • Next set of policies for review: 9850, 9874, 9720, 9700, 9020, 9872, 9932, and 0300
  • Strategic plan
  • Future agenda items and meeting-date schedule
Public participation is on the agenda

Hearing of visitors on agenda items · Hearing of visitors on non-agenda items

Executive-session notice

Staff/citizen complaints; the agenda states that the proposed executive session concerns matters that tend to prejudice a person's reputation and character.

Human-reviewed transcription locked to the exact official agenda-image SHA-256. Topics are scheduled agenda items, not evidence of a motion, vote, approval, or completed action. Fingerprint: 24704c5e0225c445152f5d41c9c5d6fb479483533f4def35dfc3b7d2bf59f3ef

2026 public meeting trail

6 distinct 2026 agenda notices

60 feed entries checked
Source date conflict

Two February posts were published in 2026 but label the meeting “February 16, 2024.” Election.org excludes them from the 2026 count instead of silently changing the district's text.

Inspect the official conflicting notice →

These are dated official agenda notices. They establish that the district published a notice and agenda image; they do not prove that a meeting occurred or that any scheduled item was approved.

Contracts and public opportunities

See what the district actually published.

Official proposal Q&AE-Rate 470 vendor-proposal questions and answers

The district states that this is a new E-Rate contract and publishes vendor questions about connectivity, bandwidth, transport, and proposal delivery.

July 1, 2026–June 30, 2029
Seeking bid for housingDistrict notice published Jun 17, 2026Open notice →

A proposal page, bid notice, or RFP file is not an award, signed contract, vendor-payment record, or proof that an opportunity remains open. Election.org preserves those distinctions.

Historical packet library143 documents

19 school-year folders; newest connected folder is 2023/2024.

Browse official archive →
Financial accountability5 annual audits

Official financial statements from 2021 through 2025.

Rules and participationPolicies and public records

Search the board's rules or ask the district for a record that is not online.

Decision-history gapThe separate Board Actions archive ends in 2016/2017.

The separate Board Actions collection ends in 2016/2017. Its absence of newer files is not evidence that the board took no newer actions.

  • Downloadable supporting packet and final minutes for the August 31, 2026 meeting
  • Current motion-by-motion or roll-call vote ledger
  • Current contracts, awards, vendors, purchase orders, and checkbook-level spending
  • Address-resolvable school-attendance and board-seat boundaries
  • Meeting-to-policy-to-budget decision history
Public money

District finance snapshot

Spending per pupil$50,820

$41,285 state/local and $9,535 federal · 2023–24 district report card

Alaska Department of Education and Early Development
Instructional spending67.3%

Share of district operating expenditures classified as instructional

Alaska Department of Education and Early Development
FY2025 budgeted expenditures$12.1M

Forecast published by Alaska DEED in January 2025

Alaska Department of Education and Early Development
Forecast unreserved balance$498,842

4.12% of forecast FY2025 budgeted expenditures

Alaska Department of Education and Early Development
Public outcomes

Student outcome snapshot

ELA proficiency20.12%

All students · 2023–24

Alaska Department of Education and Early Development
Math proficiency15.38%

All students · 2023–24

Alaska Department of Education and Early Development
4-year graduation rate67.86%

Lagging cohort measure · 2023–24 report

Alaska Department of Education and Early Development
Chronic absenteeism49.83%

All students · 2023–24

Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

Alaska suppresses some small-group values to protect student privacy. Election.org reproduces only the district-level values the state publishes.

Meetings, records, and rules

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Connected on this page

  • Permanent government identity
  • Current governing board
  • Seat-by-seat terms and public contacts
  • Upcoming board election
  • Certified and withdrawn 2026 candidates
  • Latest official result and turnout
  • Communities and schools served
  • District finance snapshot
  • Student outcome snapshot
  • Current board meeting notice and access
  • Historical board packet and action archives
  • Five annual financial audits
  • Public policies and records-request path

Next source layers

  • Complete historical seat-by-seat election results
  • Current meeting packets, minutes, and recorded votes
  • Contracts, awards, salaries, vendors, and spending over time
  • Exact geographic boundary and address eligibility
  • Candidate profiles, questionnaires, and campaign finance
  • School-level trends and historical district changes
School system at a glance

Students, schools, and public money.

Election.org connected this entity to its fiscal year 2024 Census finance record by exact government ID and to its 2024–25 NCES district and school directory by exact agency ID.

369students in the finance record
7operating schools connected
$46,593current spending per pupil
Six years of enrollment and school finance

See what changed—not just one year.

Exact federal identifiers connect 6 annual Census records for this system. Source dollars stay visible, while spending changes are also converted to constant 2024 dollars.

Census annual tables ↗
Enrollment3696.6% lower than 2019
Current spending / pupil$46,5932.1% lower than 2019 after inflation · 20.2% higher than 2019 nominal
Total expenditure$17.8M11.3% higher than 2019 · nominal
Debt outstanding$0.0No reported debt in 2019 or 2024
Enrollment reported by Census
2019: 395; 2020: 409; 2021: 407; 2022: 403; 2023: 386; 2024: 369415389363201920202021202220232024
Current spending per pupil (2024 dollars)
2019: $47,579; 2020: $42,526; 2021: $46,536; 2022: $43,236; 2023: $44,060; 2024: $46,593$48,287$45,052$41,818201920202021202220232024
Funding mix over time

Federal, state, and local shares

201926.6% F73.0% S0.3% L
202027.4% F72.3% S0.3% L
202127.9% F70.6% S1.5% L
202229.0% F68.4% S2.6% L
202326.2% F71.1% S2.6% L
202430.8% F67.7% S1.5% L
View the 2019–2024 values as a table
YearEnrollmentSpending / pupilTotal revenueTotal expenditureDebt
2019395$38,777$14,816,000$15,973,000$0
2020409$35,086$15,600,000$15,323,000$0
2021407$40,199$15,697,000$17,266,000$0
2022403$40,337$15,690,000$16,910,000$0
2023386$42,798$16,155,000$17,541,000$0
2024369$46,593$16,488,000$17,775,000$0

Source-reported nominal dollars. Amount fields are converted from source thousands to dollars. No inflation adjustment is applied. An exact identifier links published source rows; it does not erase consolidations, closures, reorganizations, or other real institutional changes between years. Constant-dollar comparisons use BLS CPI-U series CUUR0000SA0, annual U.S. city average; this is not a local cost-of-living index. Joined by exact Census PID6 or NCES LEAID; names are never used.

Schools this system operates

Explore the schools—not just the agency record.

NCES source ↗
Where the money comes from

$16.5M in reported revenue.

Census finance source ↗
Federal30.8%$5.08M
State67.7%$11.2M
Local1.5%$254,000
Total expenditures$17.8M
Current spending$17.2M
Instruction$7.96M
Support services$8.29M
Capital outlay$582,000
Debt outstanding$0

Fiscal year 2024. Census source amounts are published in thousands of dollars and converted here to dollars; per-pupil fields are published as dollar amounts. Revenue percentages are reproduced from the source.

District contact

Alaska Gateway School District

Regular public school district that is not a component of a supervisory union

GradesPK12
StatusOpen
Address1313.5 Alaska Hwy, Tok, AK, 99780
Open district website →
Still needed for a complete civic record

The federal layer is useful—but it is not the whole school board.

  • Exact trustee-seat geometry, current vacancies, and appointment history
  • Complete historical board results, candidate profiles, and campaign disclosures
  • Exact attendance and board-seat boundaries for an address
  • Normalized meeting agendas, minutes, recorded votes, and decision history
  • School-level outcomes, audited contracts and vendors, and inflation-adjusted spending comparisons
The source record

A functioning Census entity.

The Census ACTIVE field is Y for this record.

Census ID
227504
Record type
Dependent school system
Classification
State
School level
Elementary and Secondary
Status
Functioning
Published contact fields

Contact and location

Mailing addressPO BOX 226 · TOK, AK · 99780
Census contact/title fieldSupt
County areaNot published

Websites are primarily self-reported and received only limited Census Bureau quality control. County area can mean the area most served or the headquarters county when boundaries cross counties.

Published context

Scale and parent relationship

Estimated enrollment3862023

Parent governmentAlaskaCensus parent ID 227749

Evidence boundary

What each source proves—and what it does not.

Established by the published records

  • The entity or system appears in the 2025 Census listing.
  • Its Census category, identifier, and functioning/dormant field.
  • Only the location, function, population, enrollment, and contact fields actually published.
  • The Alaska Division of Elections reports the board seats, current holder or vacancy text, election method, 2026 filings, and certified 2025 results shown above.

Not established by these records

  • Continued service after the dated state roster or a direct member role/contact not published by a separate district directory.
  • Unlabeled candidate-seat relationships, unreported term lengths, or address-level section eligibility beyond the official map.
  • The exact geographic service boundary or that a reported website remains current.