Aleutian Region School District serves three communities in the Western Aleutian Islands; Nikolski, Atka and Adak. The District, its people and its geography are quite a fascinating story. Its boundary actually crosses over into the Eastern Hemisphere. Although there are no longer any functioning US communities west of Adak, we maintain contact with Russian Aleuts from the Kommander Islands. Therefore, we like to think of ourselves as linking the hemispheres geographically, intellectually and culturally. Students progress according to their individual abilities and interests. Student placement is along a learning continuum, and, it is a function of content mastery, not seat time; grade levels have functionally been abandoned.

Students are involved in selecting which activities will be used to document proficiency and which of these demonstrations will be digitized and kept as an artifactual record of their mastery. Students have the option to move beyond high school level work to college level work before graduation, or, they may complete the high school course of study early to move on to college, university or technical/ career training programs. There is significant use of and reliance upon technology and internet based resources. On-site teaching and programs are suplemented by internet based teaching and management tools. At Aleutian Region, we attempt to envision the school of the future and put that vision into practice today.