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==Education== [[Lower Kuskokwim School District]] operates the Eek School, a bilingual PreK-12 school. {{As of|2018}} it has 120 students and six teachers.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Eek School Profile|url=https://education.alaska.gov/compass/ParentPortal/SchoolProfile?SchoolID=310090|access-date=October 18, 2020|website=education.alaska.gov}}</ref><ref>"[http://eek.lksd.org/about/eek_school Eek School]." Eek School. Retrieved on July 13, 2018.</ref> The Principal is Troy Poage and the school board President is Clarence Daniel. About $21,000 is spent per pupil.<ref name=":3" /> In 2020 the state awarded $34.4 million to create a new school in Eek to reduce severe classroom overcrowding, a result of a quickly growing population. It is expected to be finished in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web|date=February 19, 2020|title=Overcrowded Alaska village schools take priority over erosion-threatened schools in state funding, superintendent says|url=https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rural-alaska/2020/02/19/crowded-alaska-village-schools-take-priority-over-erosion-threatened-schools-in-state-funding-superintendent-says/|access-date=October 18, 2020|website=Anchorage Daily News|language=en-US}}</ref> Two teachers at the Eek School, Paul and Eloise Forrer, compiled a large collection of photos of Eek and surrounding villages, as well as a film entitled ''The Children of Eek and their art''. Their work, dating mostly from the 1970s to 1990s, is held at the [[Anchorage Museum]].<ref>[https://www.anchoragemuseum.org/media/6020/b2015_017_guide.pdf Paul and Eloise Forrer Collection, 1966-2009] Reference code: AkAMH. [[Anchorage Museum]] at Rasmuson Center. Bob and Evangeline Atwood Alaska Resource Center</ref>
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