Window Rock Unified School District (WRUSD) is a school district within
Apache County, Arizona
Apache County is a County (United States), county in the northeast corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. Shaped in a long rectangle running north to south, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 66,021. The county ...
, United States. The district comprises seven schools within a 65-mile radius.
WRUSD serves several
unincorporated areas
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
, including
Fort Defiance,
Oak Springs,
St. Michaels,
Window Rock, and most of
Sawmill
A sawmill (saw mill, saw-mill) or lumber mill is a facility where logging, logs are cut into lumber. Modern sawmills use a motorized saw to cut logs lengthwise to make long pieces, and crosswise to length depending on standard or custom sizes ...
.
Schools
* Window Rock Elementary School
* Sawmill Primary Learning Center
* Tse Ho Tso Primary Learning Center
* Tse Ho Tso Intermediate Learning Center
* Tse Ho Tso Middle School
* Tséhootsooí Diné Biʼóltaʼ
** The Navajo Nation operates Tséhootsooí Diné Bi'Ólta', a Navajo language immersion school for grades K–8 in Fort Defiance, Arizona. Located on the Arizona-New Mexico border in the southeastern quarter of the Navajo Reservation, the school strives to revitalize Navajo among children of the Window Rock Unified School District. Tséhootsooí Diné Bi'ólta' has thirteen Navajo language teachers who instruct only in the Navajo language, and no English, while five English language teachers instruct in the English language. Kindergarten and first grade are taught completely in the Navajo language, while English is incorporated into the program during third grade, when it is used for about 10% of instruction.
*
Window Rock High School
References
External links
WRUSD Official Web Page
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School districts in Apache County, Arizona
Education on the Navajo Nation