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Crystal Boarding School is a K-6 boarding school in [[Crystal, New Mexico]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bie.edu/schools/directory/crystal-boarding-school|title=Crystal Boarding School|publisher=Bureau of Indian Education|access-date=2021-07-12}} - [https://www.bia.gov/sites/bia.gov/files/assets/as-ia/pdf/idc1-033506.pdf The maps and surveys here] match a site in Crystal CDP. It is not in [[Navajo, New Mexico|Navajo]] CDP.</ref> It opened in 1935 as part of an effort to replace off-reservation Indian boarding schools with on-reservation boarding schools, as a part of the [[New Deal]] project.<ref name=Severns/> In 2014 about 30 students boarded but most did not. Only one dormitory was open, as another was deemed unsafe.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://richmond.com/native-american-schools-face-decay-poverty/article_fd927445-e33c-50bf-953a-c0a3623c53c0.html|title=Native American schools face decay, poverty |agency=[[Associated Press]]|date=2014-10-19|access-date=2021-07-12}}</ref> In 2013 5% of the students were classified as having mathematics skills on par with their grade levels even though the school had already shifted most of its instruction to mathematics and reading at the expense of science and social studies. In 2015 ''[[Politico (magazine)|Politico]]'' stated that the school's campus was in a poor condition. It had no school counselor.<ref name=Severns/>

{{As of|1956}} the Wingate Elementary dormitory is a former military barracks that also houses students at Wingate High.<ref>{{cite news|title=Fort Wingate Is A Landmark In New Mexico's History|newspaper=[[The Gallup Independent]]|place=[[Gallup, New Mexico]]|date=1956-08-07|page=Section F page 13}} - [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/82041855/for-wingate-hs/ Clipping] from [[Newspapers.com]].</ref> In 1968 the girls' dormitory had 125 girls; the [[Associated Press]] stated that the dormitory lacked decoration and personal effects and was reflective of a campaign to de-personalize Native American students. At the time the school strongly discouraged students from speaking [[Navajo language|Navajo]] and wanted them to only speak English.<ref>{{cite news|title='Sit, Wait' Is Indian School Curriculum|agency=[[Associated Press]]|newspaper=[[Tucson Daily Citizen]]|date=1968-12-20|page=10}} - [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/82070426/for-wingate-nm/ Clipping] from [[Newspapers.com]].</ref> Circa 1977 it opened a 125-student $90,000 building which used a solar heating system.<ref>{{cite news|title=NM school installs solar heater|agency=[[Associated Press]]|newspaper=[[Las Vegas Optic]]|place=[[Las Vegas, New Mexico]]|date=1977-11-07|page=10}} - [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/82063956/for-wingate-nm/ Clipping] from [[Newspapers.com]].</ref>