For first time in a generation, Skagway School has single-grade classrooms

For more than 20 years, Skagway School was small enough that all students were taught in multi-age classrooms.
Denise Caposey teaches first graders at Skagway School. This school year is the first in 20 years in which enrollment is big enough to warrant single-grade elementary classrooms. (Photo by Emily Files, KHNS – Haines)But an increase in student enrollment prompted the school to transition to single-grade elementary classrooms this year.
It’s the second week of classes at Skagw