Chinle Junior High School

Located at Hwy 191 & I.R. 7, in Chinle, Arizona, Chinle Junior High School is a small middle school that caters to 373 students (grades 7 through 8), overseen by Chinle Unified District (4158). That puts it 24% leaner than the typical public school in Arizona, which averages around 494 students.

Within Chinle Unified District (4158), which oversees 7 schools and 2,910 students, Chinle Junior High School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Chinle Junior High School logs that nearly all students (99%) are Native American.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Apache County put the typical household earns roughly $41,438 per year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 25%. Across Apache County's 67 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,525 students), Chinle Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

Mesa View Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Chinle Junior High School.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Chinle Junior High School has ticked down 4%, going from 388 students in 2018 to 373 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

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