Demographics
Kayenta Middle School serves grades 5-8; a part of Kayenta Unified School District #27 located on the most beautiful landscapes of the Navajo Nation, Arizona. Kayenta is a tight-knit community promoting school pride in recognizing students for their strong leadership and academic skills. Schools celebrate students’ achievements by hosting academic honor awards night, seasonal athletic banquets, and extracurricular activities like family nights, afterschool tutoring, family-fitness night, and parent/student involvement – conferences and site council meetings. In addition, the school takes pride for integration of Diné Culture, History, and Language to honor students’ tradition. Our middle school’s enrollment is about 508 for school year 2016-2017. Most class sizes range from 23-28 students distributed among five general classrooms and one class compromising of the English Language Learners Program. The majority of students are Diné. More than half of the fifth-grade student-body read below grade level, some at grade level, and very few read above grade level.
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