Welcome to Fireweed Academy.

Where students learn to view themselves as readers, writers, and problem solvers.
Grades 3rd through 6th

MISSION STATEMENT: To provide a compassionate learning environment that gives students, parents, teachers, and community members opportunities to develop self-reliance, cooperation, creativity, reasoning ability, personal growth, and academic achievement.

Fireweed Academy, formerly the Homer Charter School, was founded in 1997 by parents, teachers, and members of the community who want the Homer area to have choices in educational opportunities. Fireweed Academy is a public school of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District. Our school receives public funding like other KPBSD schools, its teachers must meet the same high standards, and its students undergo the same standardized testing.

Fireweed Academy is operated by an Academic Policy Committee. Although we are required to address State of Alaska educational standards and meet State benchmarks, we have the flexibility which allows us to set our own educational goals using alternative resources, methods, and assessments.

Little Fireweed (grades k-2) is located at 813 East End Road and Fireweed Academy's grades 3-6 occupy four classrooms within West Homer Elementary School at 995 Soundview Avenue in Homer, Alaska.

PO Box 474
Homer, AK  99603
(907) 235-9728
(907) 235-8561 FAX

email us at
jbowen@kpbsd.k12.ak.us