Nome Public Schools


Nome Public Schools, also known as the Nome City School District, is the school district serving the city of Nome, Alaska. The district has one of the highest efficiencies in Western Alaska. The current superintendent of the district is Jamie Burgess.
Though public schools have existed in Nome since 1902, the present-day school district exists mostly to fulfill the obligation that first-class cities in the Unorganized Borough have under state law to provide education and planning/zoning functions within their cities. As such, it is separate from the Bering Strait School District which serves the smaller communities of the surrounding area.
NPS oversees five schools: two traditional grade-based schools, plus a charter magnet school, a correspondence program and a school program located in Nome Youth Facility. These five schools have a total enrollment of approximately 720 students, with enrollment per school ranging from 15 to 375.

History

The district's lineage extends to the establishment of the City of Nome in 1901.
The first local school in Nome was officially established in 1902.

Historic Superintendent List

SuperintendentYear
James A. Riley1901–1902
Will Henry1902–1903
D. W. Jarvis1903–1905
Professor D.H. Traphagen1905–1907
Professor Edgar E. Grimm1907–1911
Frank Xavier Karrer1911–1914
C.W. Baird1914–1916
Charles W. Thompson1916–1918
Emma Lee Orr1918–1920
Mrs. Frederick Bockman1920–1921
T. Collins1921–1922
Lars E. Rynning1922–1925
D.W. Davis1925–1926
Leo W. Breuer1926–1928
Luther Dunbar1928–1930
E.J. Beck1930–1934
William H. Bloom1934–1936
Calvin E. Pool1936–1939
A.A. Ryan1939
Frank Allen Smola1944
William L. Angell1944–1951
Oliver G. Boe1951–1952
William L. Angell1952–1959
Darroll Hargraves1974–1981
Larry LaBolle1981–1987
Robert Shigley1987–1989
Donald Darling1989–1990
Larry LaBolle/Bob Kinna1990–1991
Bob Kinna1991–1999
Karen Ligon1999–2000
Sharon Swope2000–2001
Stan Lujan2001–2008
Rick Luthi2008–2009
Jon Wehde2009–2011
Mike Brawner2011–2013
Steve Gast2013–2014
Shawn Arnold2014–2018
Bill Schildbach2018–2019
Jamie Burgess2019–Present

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