Chapman School

Twice a day, cars queue up at the busy intersection of the Old Sterling Highway and new Sterling Highway in Anchor Point. Parents drop off and pick up their kids at Chapman School, while highway traffic whizzes by. Some relief is on its way, after the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly approved spending this week to expand the school’s footprint.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly is considering an ordinance to buy additional land for Chapman School in Anchor Point to improve student drop-off safety.

Chapman School eighth graders will be the first class from Alaska to participate in Expedition Yellowstone.

For the first time, kindergarten and first-grade students in Anchor Point are learning how to play the violin at school. That’s thanks to the nonprofit Homer OPUS, which expanded its violin program to Chapman Elementary school last month with help from grants from Carnegie Hall, the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the Rasmuson Foundation.

Dozens of students oohed and aahed on a cold morning in Anchor Point as biologists spawned a pair of coho salmon and fertilized their eggs. It was the first lesson in the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s annual “Salmon in the Classroom” program, which teaches Kenai Peninsula students about salmon biology in their classrooms throughout the school year.

Chapman School in Anchor Point dodged another funding scare last night. Instead, it wound up with a room for special needs students. The school had been…

The principal of Anchor Point’s Chapman School is resigning from his position. Conrad Woodhead has led the school for the past eight years and also served…

Two middle school students from Anchor Point and one from Nanwalek are attending a course through the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program…