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2025 Census government inventory

Chatham School District

Dependent school system in Alaska. Browse the source-reported information below.

Census ID 225903 · Functioning in the 2025 inventory
What this office actually does

School Board Member: powers, limits, and control

Helps govern a public school district as one member of a board; the board sets direction and oversight while administrators usually run day-to-day operations.

COMMONLY CAN

Vote collectively on district policies, goals, budgets, and superintendent oversight where state law assigns those functions.

DOES NOT CONTROL ALONE

Act for the board alone unless the law or board has specifically authorized it.

Read the source-backed office guide →
Alaska school-board sources

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. Dated board rosters, the 2026 filing snapshot, 2026 results with their printed source status where reported, and official 2025 results are separate source layers. A result does not verify current board service.

5published board holders
1seats in the 2026 filing snapshot
31.52%districtwide turnout in official 2025 results
October 6, 2026 election

Official 2026 REAA 18 results

Reported vote totals from the Alaska Division of Elections. The printed report status is shown here. These results do not establish assumption of office or current board membership; a separate certification document has not been ingested.

Official summary ↗
37.5%districtwide turnout
111ballots cast
296registered voters
REAA 18-1, Seat A111 votes

Kristi L. Kookesh45 · 40.54%

Crystal Y. Parkin48 · 43.24%

Richard "Jack" Strong14 · 12.61%

Write-in4 · 3.60%

1 of 1 precincts reported. Contest area: 111 ballots cast from 296 registered voters.

Summary report: 10/22/2026 10:19:33 AM. District report ↗: 10/22/2026 10:32:44 AM (official). Timestamps are printed source values; checked 2026-11-07 UTC. The aggregate write-in category and any named breakdown are not added together. No officeholder identity is inferred. Dated board rosters and official 2025 results remain separate.

Dated board roster

State roster revision: 01/15/2026; checked November 7, 2026. Continued service after that snapshot is unverified.

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.

2026 filing snapshot

2026 REAA election

Election district ↗
Election dayOctober 6, 2026

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

Nomination details retained from August 30, 2026. The election authority removed these seat details after the election; terms and communities below are historical. Candidate filings checked November 7, 2026.

Seat A · Section I3-year term

Angoon, Klukwan

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

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.

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District contact

Chatham School District

Superintendent: Ralph Watkins

District phone(907) 788-3302
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

GradesPK–12
StatusOpen
Address500 Big Dog Salmon Way, Angoon, AK, 99820
Open district website →
About this school data

Census and NCES records describe this system’s enrollment, finances and schools for the years shown. Board, election and meeting information, when available, has separate sources and dates. An unlisted item means it is not covered here—not that it does not exist. Check the district’s official notices for current meetings and officeholders.

The source record

Listed as functioning in 2025.

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
2025 Census snapshot

Reported contact and location fields

Reported mailing addressPO BOX 109 · ANGOON, AK · 99820
Reported contact roleSupt

A role label, not a verified person’s name.

These are inventory fields, not newly verified office contacts. A county field or mailing address does not establish the exact service boundary.

Published context

Scale and parent relationship

Estimated enrollment1472023

Parent governmentAlaskaCensus parent ID 227749

About these sources and their limits
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 dated board-seat and holder/vacancy text, election method, retained 2026 filings, 2026 results with their separate printed source statuses where available, and official 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.
Sources & notes
Government inventory source

PublisherU.S. Census Bureau ↗

SnapshotFiscal year ending June 30, 2025

PublishedSeptember 24, 2025

Source nameCHATHAM REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL ATTENDANCE AREA (REAA)

SHA-256 840e8b65e5e65325c0a42fb842ea81c0491eae3abd8a41953764044ee9e2a56e
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