[3] This building, wooden and painted red and white, functioned as a one room school.
[6] Lightning ruined the wooden building,[2] as it overloaded the electrical system and started a fire,[3] so a new one was built.
Kim Smith of the Eastern Arizona Courier wrote that Blue School "blend real-life experiences into the curriculum.
"[2] 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.
Vinson Greer, author of a PhD thesis, wrote that the school's appearance was different from the previous building.