There are rural schools included in the data including Bethel, Dillingham and Nome, none of which landed in the "bottom five".  Just wanted to mention this since we're usually considered the worst in the state at everything. All of us, rural and urban, will need to get more focused on education in Alaska because the job market is going to demand it.  With oil declining, there won't be nearly so many good-paying jobs for hard-working people that don't require training beyond high school.