[3] By 2009 there was an epidemic of suicides among young people on the reservation.
[4] By September 2009, Mescalero Apache School established a suicide crisis center.
[5] Additionally the U.S. Department of Education in 2010 gave the school $48,000 for suicide prevention programs.
[6] Every student in elementary and middle school must take classes in the Apache language, and every high school student must take at least one year of Apache language classes.
In the early 1990s the school introduced Apache language classes.