What Alaska publishes about lead testing in its schools’ drinking water, what those numbers cover, and how we checked it. One row of a 51-jurisdiction survey, verified jurisdiction by jurisdiction rather than compiled from a single list.
AlaskaPublishes for very few schools
Published action level, as verified in 2026: Not recorded by this survey.
Action levels are not comparable between jurisdictions: across the 51 we surveyed they run from 1 ppb to 20 ppb, so a share of results above “the action level” measures the threshold as much as it measures the water. We never rank states on it. Where a jurisdiction explains how its own level was set, the verified research note at the foot of this page records the explanation verbatim.
Alaska publishes results, but we have not yet ingested them row by row, so this page carries no counts or rates for it — only what the survey verified about the publication itself. We publish a figure once we hold the rows it is computed from, and not before. The jurisdiction’s own results are linked below.
The baseline is the National Association of State Boards of Education’s 2021 survey. Every 2026 value below was re-checked for this survey; a value that did not move is a finding too.
Changed since the 2021 baseline: testing required, publishes results.
Our field note for Alaska, published verbatim rather than summarised. Where it quotes a figure from a source, that is the source’s own number reproduced as we recorded it, not a rate we computed — everything we compute states its denominator and its unit.
CORRECTED 2026-08-15, verified at source: Alaska publishes, barely. The negative rested on EPA's 'coming soon' marker alone. EPA's index names the Department of Education & Early Development -- NOT DEC, which is where a drinking-water programme would be looked for and where there is nothing -- and DEED's Facilities Publications page carries a section headed 'Lead Water Test Results' listing 'school districts that have participated in the voluntary program': Fairbanks, Iditarod Area, Dillingham. It is inside a collapsed accordion, invisible to a page-text fetch, which is plausibly why the earlier pass missed it. VERIFIED THE RESULTS ARE REAL, not just the index: Fairbanks North Star Borough SD publishes per-school summaries for Hunter Elementary and Salcha Elementary from sampling completed 2022-05-21 with DEC -- 104 samples at Hunter, 0 at or above 15 ppb, one tap at 14 ppb named with its remediation. Iditarod Area SD publishes 'TOTKS Lead Test Results' (one school). ⚠️ Dillingham's link is a Google Doc that returns 'Can't access item' to the public, so one of the three districts DEED points to publishes nothing a parent can open. NEGLIGIBLE is the grade on primary evidence: three districts, and 3 schools whose results are actually readable, against Alaska's ~500 public schools -- thinner than Iowa, which is the rubric's own example. DEED HOSTS NO RESULTS ITSELF; it is an index pointing at district-hosted documents, which is why dataTier is T3 (a district PDF and a district HTML summary) rather than T2 or T4. VINTAGE LEFT unknown, not guessed: the only dated evidence is Fairbanks 2022, DEED does not date its list, and whether the voluntary programme still runs was not established. Coverage is negligible either way, so the tier does not turn on it.
TapWaterData Editorial. "School drinking water lead testing: Alaska." TapWaterData national school drinking-water lead testing database. Last updated 2026-08-15. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. https://www.tapwaterdata.com/school-lead-testing/alaska
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