By that year, the previous facility had maintenance issues and suffered difficulties from vibrations generated by a nearby train line.
[2] Maryann Apodaca y Silva, the then-principal, stated that the train interfered with students' abilities to do classwork.
[2] The current facility opened in 2006,[6] and had a cost of $10,500,000, with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) supplying most of the funds used to pay for it.
[2] In years prior to 2015, the administration and teachers had significant turnover, so some parents chose to send their children elsewhere.
[7] In 2015 the BIE had plans to give the school to tribal control on July 1 of that year.