Government directory/Alaska/Dependent school system
U.S. Census government inventory · ID 225903

Chatham School District.

Dependent school system in Alaska.

Dependent school systemStateFunctioning
Live Alaska school-board record

Who governs this district, what voters decide, and how to act.

Election.org connected Census entity 225903 to REAA 18 using a curated identity crosswalk. This is the state's current seat roster, 2026 ballot, latest certified result, and direct path to the public record—not a name-matched directory guess.

5published board holders
1board seats on the 2026 ballot
31.52%districtwide turnout in the latest official result
Who governs it now
Richard J. StrongSeat A · Section ILast election year 2024 · next ballot 2026 · term cycle through 2029
Albert M. Kookesh IIISeat B · Section ILast election year 2025 · next ballot 2028 · term cycle through 2028
Jennifer M. ToddSeat C · Section IILast election year 2024 · next ballot 2027 · term cycle through 2027
Stacey G. ProctorSeat D · Section IILast election year 2024 · next ballot 2027 · term cycle through 2027
LeAnn WeikleSeat E · Section IILast election year 2025 · next ballot 2028 · term cycle through 2028

State roster revised 01/15/2026. Election.org does not republish member mailing addresses. Direct roles and contacts stay blank unless a separate district directory verifies them.

What voters decide next

2026 REAA election

Election district ↗
Election dayOctober 6, 2026

Nominates and Elects by Section. Annually on the first Tuesday in October.

Seat A · Section I3-year term

Angoon, Klukwan

  • Richard “Jack” StrongCertified · incumbent
  • Crystal Y. ParkinCertified
  • Kristi L. KookeshCertified
See all official filings (3 certified) →
What voters decided last

Official 2025 REAA 18 result.

313 ballots were cast from 993 registered voters. Every contest below reports all precincts.

Open certified result ↗
31.52%districtwide turnout
313ballots cast
993registered voters
Seat B · Section I106 votes

Albert M. III Kookesh75

Write-in31

1 of 1 precincts reported
Seat E · Section II203 votes

Chantel M. Mulligan-Rear38

LeAnn Weikle164

Write-in1

2 of 2 precincts reported

Official October 7, 2025 results. Districtwide turnout and seat-level vote totals come from the Alaska Division of Elections; sectional contest totals can differ from districtwide ballots cast.

Explore the district and take action

Go straight to the useful public record.

District contact

Chatham School District

Superintendent: Ralph Watkins

District phone(907) 788-3302
What is still missing

This is a real governance layer—not yet the complete civic history.

The statewide adapter closes the basic people-and-election gap for every REAA. The next district-by-district layer is the public business people need between elections.

Connected now

  • All 19 exact REAA-to-Census identities
  • Current holders, vacancies, seats, and term cycle
  • 2026 seats, communities, candidates, and filing status
  • Certified 2025 turnout and seat results
  • District contact and direct official-source links

Next source layers

  • Meeting agendas, minutes, recorded votes, and decisions
  • Board policies, budgets, contracts, salaries, and spending trends
  • Historical candidates, results, vacancies, and appointments
  • Exact board-seat geometry for an address
  • School-level outcomes and enrollment trends

Statewide source set verified 2026-08-30; all 81 source responses are fingerprinted in the public data manifest.

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.

163students in the finance record
4operating schools connected
$45,307current 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 ↗
Enrollment1630.6% higher than 2019
Current spending / pupil$45,30719.6% higher than 2019 after inflation · 46.8% higher than 2019 nominal
Total expenditure$7.5M48.7% higher than 2019 · nominal
Debt outstanding$0.0No reported debt in 2019 or 2024
Enrollment reported by Census
2019: 162; 2020: 152; 2021: 143; 2022: 139; 2023: 147; 2024: 163166151136201920202021202220232024
Current spending per pupil (2024 dollars)
2019: $37,877; 2020: $42,174; 2021: $43,092; 2022: $43,785; 2023: $47,581; 2024: $45,307$48,940$42,729$36,519201920202021202220232024
Funding mix over time

Federal, state, and local shares

201918.1% F79.9% S2.0% L
202019.4% F78.4% S2.2% L
202128.5% F69.5% S1.9% L
202235.5% F62.7% S1.8% L
202340.3% F57.3% S2.3% L
202439.6% F56.4% S4.0% L
View the 2019–2024 values as a table
YearEnrollmentSpending / pupilTotal revenueTotal expenditureDebt
2019162$30,870$5,074,000$5,048,000$0
2020152$34,796$4,977,000$5,441,000$0
2021143$37,224$5,553,000$5,566,000$0
2022139$40,849$5,773,000$5,971,000$0
2023147$46,218$6,618,000$7,312,000$0
2024163$45,307$6,665,000$7,507,000$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.

Where the money comes from

$6.67M in reported revenue.

Census finance source ↗
Federal39.6%$2.64M
State56.4%$3.76M
Local4.0%$265,000
Total expenditures$7.51M
Current spending$7.38M
Instruction$4.54M
Support services$2.64M
Capital outlay$122,000
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

Chatham School District

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

GradesPK12
StatusOpen
Address500 Big Dog Salmon Way, Angoon, AK, 99820
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
225903
Record type
Dependent school system
Classification
State
School level
Elementary and Secondary
Status
Functioning
Published contact fields

Contact and location

Mailing addressPO BOX 109 · ANGOON, AK · 99820
Census contact/title fieldSupt
County areaNot published
Reported websiteNot 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 enrollment1472023

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.