With a student enrollment of slightly over 14,000, it is the state's second largest public school district.

[1] The district encompasses all of Fairbanks North Star Borough,[2] an area of 7,361 square miles (19,060 km2), which is roughly equal to the size of Rhode Island, Delaware, and Connecticut combined,[3] or to the state of Israel.

A replacement facility, named Main School and now known as Fairbanks City Hall, opened on January 22, 1934.

[6] In February 2022, the school board made several decisions, including one to close three elementary schools in the Fairbanks North Star Borough, which would save the district $3 million a year.

The school district made the decision based a on $20 million budget shortfall.