Editing Galena, Alaska (section)

==Education==
As Galena is incorporated as a first-class city and located in the [[Unorganized Borough]], it is required by state law to operate its own schools, [[Galena City School District]], apart from the Rural Education Attendance Areas which otherwise prevail outside of incorporated boroughs. Along with other such cities across Alaska, Galena's school district operates a [[boarding school]] and a correspondence study program, to increase state funding which would not otherwise be available with the local pupil base.

Galena has three schools. Galena City School is primarily for local K–12 students. There is a public library located in the Sidney C. Huntington School. Sidney Huntington (1915&ndash;2015)<ref>[https://www.adn.com/article/20151208/sidney-huntington-athabascan-elder-and-author-dies-100 Sidney Huntington dies at 100]</ref> was a longtime resident and leader in Galena and the author of ''Shadows on the Koyukuk'', a popular book on Alaska.

The vocational Galena Interior Learning Academy (GILA) is a boarding school which draws students from around the state. GILA is located on the site of the former [[Galena Air Force Station]] and is one of three public boarding high schools in Alaska; the second in size behind [[Mount Edgecumbe High School]] in [[Sitka, Alaska|Sitka]]. The third is the Nenana Living School in Nenana. GILA uses the former barracks as a dorm, the former PX and headquarters buildings as class rooms and the dining hall as a cafeteria, along with the gym and other facilities. Recently, a new STEM building was constructed to replace one of the old air force buildings that had been used for classrooms. GILA provides educational and vocational training to young men and women from all over Alaska, grades 9–12, with most students coming from remote Native Alaskan villages from the Interior, North Slope and Aleutian Islands. GILA hosts various training and regional conferences throughout the year. GILA student enrollment grew from 110 to 180 in the 2009–10 school year.

Galena's third school is [http://www.ideafamilies.org Interior Distance Education of Alaska] (IDEA), a statewide [[homeschool]] support program that serves 3,500 students across the state. As correspondence programs are tabulated by the [[Alaska Department of Education & Early Development]] as a single school, IDEA is considered the largest school by enrollment in all of Alaska.