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Kayenta Unified School District #27 (4396), AZ: schools, enrollment and spending
Kayenta Unified School District #27 (4396) runs 4 public schools with 1,544 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 13.8 students per teacher is 3.9 lower than the Arizona figure of 17.7.
At a glance
- Schools
- 4
- Students
- 1,544
- Teachers (FTE)
- 112
- Students per teacher
- 13.8
- AZ: 17.7 · US: 15.3
- Address
- N Hwy 163, Kayenta, AZ 86033
- Phone
- (928)697-2001
- County
- Navajo County
- Locale
- Rural: Remote
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 0404060
- State district ID
- AZ-4396
- Total staff (FTE)
- 310
- School counselors (FTE)
- 6.0About 257 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 6.0
Students per teacher compared
This district13.8
Arizona17.7
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (1,615), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $32.6 million
- Federal revenue
- $18.1 million
- State revenue
- $12.2 million
- Local revenue
- $2.2 million
- Total spending
- $33.3 million
- Spending per pupil
- $20,638
- Salaries
- $17.5 million52.4% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $0
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 55.6%
- State: 37.5%
- Local: 6.9%
Arizona overall
- Federal: 17.1%
- State: 46.5%
- Local: 36.3%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$20,638
Arizona$11,583
United States$16,826
Schools in Kayenta Unified School District #27 (4396)
By level: 1 high, 1 middle, 2 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Baker Middle SchoolCEP school | Middle | 5 to 8 | 447 | 13.5 |
| Debbie Braff Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 4 | 426 | 12.5 |
| K.U.S.D.#27 - A B C Preschool | Elementary | PK to K | 53 | 17.7 |
| Monument Valley High SchoolCEP school | High | 9 to 12 | 618 | 14.7 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Navajo County
- Snowflake Unified District (4391) 2,830 students
- Show Low Unified District (4393) 2,398 students
- Whiteriver Unified District (4394) 2,231 students
- Winslow Unified District (4387) 1,825 students
- Holbrook Unified District (4389) 1,806 students
- Blue Ridge Unified School District No. 32 (4397) 1,628 students
- Pinon Unified District (4390) 1,019 students
- Heber-Overgaard Unified District (4392) 490 students
- Joseph City Unified District (4388) 415 students
- Edkey Inc. - Sequoia Village School (79211) 297 students
- Cedar Unified District (4395) 142 students
- Northern Arizona Vocational Institute of Technolog (78786) 66 students
- Northeast Arizona Technological Institute of Vocat (81114) 64 students
- Career Development Inc. (4400) 59 students
- Shonto Governing Board of Education Inc. (6353) 57 students
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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.