It is under the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gallup, and from 1986 to 2001 had high school classes.
[2] Douglas McNeill (died 2018[3]), a member of the Catholic clergy active in the area in the 1970s, saw an image of a child in poverty in the region and felt inspiration to establish a school.
[4] McNeill received assistance from the Gallup Head Start organization, which arranged school meals.
[7] In 2016 a proposed settlement was established which would mean the mission leadership would pay the diocese $550,000 and receive the title to the property.
[8] The high school division had the standard classes as well as art, drama, and music.
[11] In 1994, when it had high school, almost all students attended tertiary education after graduation, and no student left the education system before they graduated from a secondary institution.