District overview
Delta/Greely School District
How a small unorganized-borough district is funded and governed, and what its budget shows
How is Delta/Greely funded, since it has no local school tax?
Delta Junction sits in an unorganized borough, so Delta/Greely is a Regional Educational Attendance Area (REAA) rather than an ordinary city or borough school district. REAAs have no authority to levy a local property tax, so the district runs on state and federal money almost exclusively. Alaska's Foundation Program — a per-student state formula — supplies most of the operating budget. The state also pays the district's teacher and public-employee pension contributions directly, and the federal government sends Impact Aid because tax-exempt federal land, including the Fort Greely Army post, sits inside the district's boundaries and would otherwise have helped fund schools through property tax.
State Foundation Program formula
$9,896,165 budgeted for FY2026, about 72% of School Operating Fund revenue — down from the $10,723,810 the district actually received in FY2025 (see the funding alert on this page).
No local property tax
As a REAA in an unorganized borough, the district cannot levy a local school tax, unlike Alaska's organized boroughs and city school districts. No local bond, override, or tax measure exists for this district.
Federal Impact Aid
$188,000 budgeted for FY2026, paid because federal land — including the Fort Greely Army post — removes taxable property from the local base.
State-paid pension contributions
The state pays roughly $816,000 a year directly into the district's teacher and public-employee retirement systems on the district's behalf. This is counted as both revenue and expenditure in the budget — it is not cash the district controls.
This funding structure is not unusual for Delta/Greely specifically — every Alaska REAA is funded this way. The collected documents show a routine, balanced budget and a clean audit, not a funding crisis.
What is on the public record
Not found among the district's own published documents; this figure comes from the NCES Common Core of Data via the Urban Institute Education Data API, not from a district document. Current enrollment may differ.
Calculated: FY2025 total expenditures across all governmental funds (verified, above) divided by 2022-23 enrollment (context, above, the most recent available). Includes federal and state pass-through pension payments the district does not control, and enrollment is two years older than the spending figure, so this is a rough estimate, not a precise per-pupil operating cost.
Major projects
District-wide facilities survey
Open for input (survey phase)The district is surveying staff and parents on school buildings, grounds, and overall facilities to identify improvement needs and plan future upgrades.
- Facilities survey opened to staff and parents
Funding
Not yet determined; the announcement does not name a funding source pending survey results.
Built from documents linked on the district's own Edlio-hosted website (dgsd.us). That site returns an automated-access block (HTTP 403) to a direct request, so page discovery used bounded, proxied browser rendering; documents themselves were then downloaded directly from the open Edlio file host (files.edl.io/4.files.edl.io). The district's agenda/minutes vendor, BoardDocs (boarddocs.com/ak/dgsd), returns a technical block to this collection and was not used. External context figures (enrollment, per-pupil estimate) come from the NCES Common Core of Data via the Urban Institute Education Data API and are dated separately from the district's own documents.
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