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==Education== School districts that serve the county include:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st04_az/schooldistrict_maps/c04017_navajo/DC20SD_C04017.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st04_az/schooldistrict_maps/c04017_navajo/DC20SD_C04017.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Navajo County, AZ|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|accessdate=July 25, 2022}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st04_az/schooldistrict_maps/c04017_navajo/DC20SD_C04017_SD2MS.txt Text list]</ref> {{div col}} * [[Blue Ridge Unified School District]] * [[Cedar Unified School District]] * [[Heber-Overgaard Unified School District]] * [[Holbrook Unified School District]] * [[Joseph City Unified School District]] * [[Kayenta Unified School District]] * [[Piñon Unified School District]] * [[Show Low Unified School District]] * [[Snowflake Unified School District]] * [[Whiteriver Unified School District]] * [[Winslow Unified School District]] {{div col end}} There is a tribal elementary school called Little Singer Community School, affiliated with the [[Bureau of Indian Education]] (BIE).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bie.edu/schools/directory/little-singer-community-school|title=Little Singer Community School|publisher=[[Bureau of Indian Education]]|accessdate=July 12, 2021|quote=6 Miles S. Birdsprings Chapter N71, Winslow, AZ, 86047}}</ref> Hataalii Yazhi, a [[medicine man]],<ref name=YurthNewBldg>{{cite web|last=Yurth|first=Cindy|url=https://navajotimes.com/edu/little-singer-school-gets-bold-new-building/|title=Little Singer School gets bold new building |newspaper=[[Navajo Times]]|date=November 5, 2020|accessdate=July 12, 2021}}</ref> in the 1970s proposed establishing the school so area children did not have to travel far for their education.<ref name=ApDecaypov>{{cite news|url=https://richmond.com/native-american-schools-face-decay-poverty/article_fd927445-e33c-50bf-953a-c0a3623c53c0.html|title=Native American schools face decay, poverty|agency=[[Associated Press]]|newspaper=[[Richmond Times-Dispatch]]|date=October 19, 2014|accessdate=July 12, 2021}}</ref> The school was named after him. The original buildings used two geodesic domes as features.<ref name=YurthNewBldg/> In 2014 the school had 81 students. By 2014 the original campus was described by the [[Associated Press]] as being in poor repair.<ref name=ApDecaypov/> In 2004 the school first asked the BIE to get funding for a new building.<!--2020-16 = 2004--> The current campus had a cost of $28 million and an area of {{convert|32000|sqft|sqm}}. It uses intersecting circles as an architectural feature.<ref name=YurthNewBldg/> The current building was dedicated in November 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.navajo-nsn.gov/News%20Releases/NNCouncil/2020/Nov/Navajo_Nation_dedicates_Little_Singer_Community_School_with_Birdsprings_community_and_Washington_delegation_PR_01.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.navajo-nsn.gov/News%20Releases/NNCouncil/2020/Nov/Navajo_Nation_dedicates_Little_Singer_Community_School_with_Birdsprings_community_and_Washington_delegation_PR_01.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live|title=Navajo Nation dedicates Little Singer Community School with Birdsprings community and Washington delegation|publisher=[[Navajo Nation]]|date=November 2, 2020|accessdate=July 12, 2021}}</ref> It is physically in an [[unincorporated area]] {{convert|6|mi|km}} southeast of [[Birdsprings]], and has a postal address of [[Winslow, Arizona|Winslow]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://littlesinger.org/|title=Home|publisher=Little Singer Community Grant & Charter Jr. High School|date=August 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110828110907/http://littlesinger.org/|accessdate=July 12, 2021|archive-date=August 28, 2011|quote=Little Singer Community School, 6 miles SE of Birdsprings Rte 71, Winslow, AZ 86047}} - {{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=5900159&ID=590015900182|title=Little Singer Community School|publisher=[[National Center for Educational Statistics]]|accessdate=July 12, 2021|quote=Physical Address: 6 miles south of Birdspring{{sic}} Chapter Winslow, AZ 86047}}</ref>
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