Editing Cold Bay, Alaska (section)

===Cold Bay School===
The Cold Bay School was the community's public grade school, operated by the [[Aleutians East Borough School District]] (AEBSD), until its closure in May 2015. AEBSD's [[school board]] voted to close Cold Bay School following the conclusion of the 2014–2015 school year due to a decline in enrollment, which led to the loss of state funding.<ref name="LastKid">{{Cite news|last=Boots|first=Michelle Theriault|date=August 8, 2015|title=The last kid in Cold Bay|url=https://www.adn.com/article/20150808/last-kid-cold-bay|newspaper=[[Alaska Dispatch News]]|location=Anchorage|access-date=October 23, 2015}}</ref> The school employed one teacher and served between four and nine students in its last years.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}} The loss of the school caused an exodus of the remaining school-aged children until, by 2015, only one was left.<ref name="LastKid"/>

Circa 1978 the school, then a part of the [[Aleutian Region School District]], had two teachers,<ref name=Aleutp58>''Aleutian Islands, Aleutian Peninsula Debris Removal: Environmental Impact Statement''. [[United States Army Corps of Engineers]], 1980. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=UvoyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA58 58].</ref> and 37 students.<ref name=Aleutp59>''Aleutian Islands, Aleutian Peninsula Debris Removal: Environmental Impact Statement''. [[United States Army Corps of Engineers]], 1980. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=UvoyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA59 59].</ref> In the 1980s, the school typically enrolled around 30 students.<ref name="EIS">{{Cite book|title = Proposed North Aleutian Basin lease sale (sale 92): draft environmental impact statement|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4T_xAAAAMAAJ|publisher = U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Alaska Outer Continental Shelf Region|date = January 1, 1985|first = United States Minerals Management Service Alaska OCS|last = Region}}</ref> In 1985 it reached peak enrollment, with 50 students and four teachers.<ref name="EIS" /> Despite its remote location, the school was involved in state and national activities, such as hosting the military's "Operation Arctic Care" outreach health program in 2002, and by briefly becoming involved with reporting for [[HLN (TV channel)|CNN Student Bureau]] that same year.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}

The school building was used to house passengers of flights which made emergency landings in Cold Bay.<ref>{{cite news|author=Knight, JoAnne|url=https://www.adn.com/education/article/cold-bay-braces-closure-its-school/2015/05/02/|title=Cold Bay braces for the closure of its school |newspaper=[[Anchorage Daily News]]|date=May 31, 2016|access-date=February 20, 2017}}</ref>