Schools · Sawmill

Sawmill, AZ schools

Sawmill’s public schools score well below Arizona’s averages: 24.5% of students are proficient in reading against 38.5% statewide, and 77% of high schoolers graduate on time against 77.3%. Kids attend Tsehootsooi Primary Learning Center or Tsehootsooi Dine Bi'Olta through grade 6, then Tsehootsooi Middle School and Window Rock High School.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

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Sawmill’s School Grade: C+

The public schools Sawmill’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 60% of Arizona’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.

C-Test scoresC+Graduation
Arizona school districts we grade (567)Better than 40%
Lower resultsHigher results
Arizona towns with similar household incomes (71)Better than 31%
Lower confidence. Built on 73 tested students and a graduating class of 151. With numbers this small, one year can move the grade.
How the School Grade works
  • Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Arizona’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
  • The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
  • Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Arizona only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
  • Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Arizona with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
  • What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path

Where Sawmill kids go to school

Grades 7–8
D-Tsehootsooi Middle School 284 students · Fort Defiance Window Rock Unified District
Grades 9–12
D-Window Rock High School 548 students · Fort Defiance Window Rock Unified District

Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.

Test scores · 2020–21

Well below the state in reading

Reading (grades K–12, Window Rock Unified)24.5%
State average 38.5%
Math (grades K–12, Window Rock Unified)12%
State average 31.2%
Graduation · class of 2020

77% graduate on time

Graduation rate
77%
AZ: 77.3%
Graduating class
151
students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.

Districts

The district serving Sawmill

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

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Colleges near Sawmill

There’s no college in Sawmill, but 1 college is within 30 miles. The closest is Dine College in Tsaile, 28.3 miles away.

Straight-line distance from the center of Sawmill. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus.

We don’t have any schools located in Sawmill yet.

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