User:WhisperToMe/Salt River Schools

Salt River Schools is an organization of schools on the Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community reservation in unincorporated Maricopa County, Arizona. It consists of several institutions:
 * Salt River Elementary School, a tribal school affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education. It covers elementary grades. The school's November lessons focus on Native American culture and thankfulness towards families instead of the Thanksgiving narrative common in American schools.
 * A previous facility, made of adobe, opened circa 1935. In 1989 the school had 153 children. Sometime before 1995, the school became tribally-run after receiving a grant from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), which previously directly operated the school.
 * Salt River Accelerated Learning Academy, a charter high school, which functions as an alternative school for students deemed "at-risk"

It formerly operated:
 * Salt River High School

Curriculum
All of the schools have coursework related to the Maricopa (Piipash) and O'odham peoples. In particular, in 2020, students in the seventh grade took mandatory O'odham language classes.