Blue School District 22 is a
school district in the community of
Blue, in
Greenlee County, Arizona
Greenlee County is a county in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,563, making it Arizona's least populous county. The county seat is Clifton.
The economy of Greenlee County is domi ...
. The school covers grades K-12. The school, Blue School, is nicknamed "the Blue".
The previous building was a wooden
one room school
One-room schools, or schoolhouses, were commonplace throughout rural portions of various countries, including Prussia, Norway, Sweden, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Spain. In most rural and s ...
, painted in red and white. In 1984 the school had four students, with one girl. Randy Collier of ''
The Arizona Republic'' stated due to difficulties in transportation and from being far from other places, "the social life at Blue primarily is at the school."
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at Newspapers.com. Lightning ruined the wooden building in 1985, so a new one was built. Previously it was a
K-8 school; in that era students attended
Round Valley Unified School District's
Round Valley High School in
Eagar
Eagar is a town in Apache County, Arizona, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population of the town was 4,885.
Eagar was first settled in 1871.
History
Brothers William Walter John Thomas and Joel Sixtus settled the area under the dir ...
, with some living with relatives in Eagar and some traveling to and from Eagar via
school bus
A school bus is any type of bus owned, leased, contracted to, or operated by a school or school district. It is regularly used to transport students to and from school or school-related activities, but not including a charter bus or transit bus ...
. In 2021 the enrollment was 10 and the school now covered high school.
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Operations
According to the teacher, the students in upper grades assist students in prior grades. Kim Smith of the ''Eastern Arizona Courier
The ''Eastern Arizona Courier'' is a weekly newspaper published in Safford, Arizona. Its roots go back to March 1895, when it was founded as the ''Graham Guardian'' by the Guardian Publishing Company, and edited by John J. Birdno. Its current c ...
'' wrote that Blue School "blend real-life experiences into the curriculum."[
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See also
* Non-high school district
References
External links
Information from the superintendent of schools
- Greenlee County
School districts in Greenlee County, Arizona
One-room schoolhouses in Arizona
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