Young Elementary School District

{{Short description|School district in Arizona, United States}}

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

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{{Infobox school district

| name = {{PAGENAMEBASE}}

| address = Highway 288 and Baker Ranch Road

| city = Young

| state = Arizona

| zipcode = 85554

| country = United States

| type = Public

| us_nces_district_id = {{NCES District ID|0409540|district_name=Young Elementary District (4213)|access_date=2022-03-05}}

| grades = PreK–12

| students = 47

| teachers = 5.5

| staff = 9.24

| ratio = 8.55

| website = {{URL2|https://www.youngschool.org}}

}}

Young Public School District 5 is a school district in Gila County, Arizona serving the community of Young, Arizona. It operates only one school, Young Public School, which comprises grades K though 8.{{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?ID=040954000978|title=Young Elementary School|publisher=National Center for Education Statistics|accessdate=2022-02-01}}

In 1984 the district included sections of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. In 1984 the Young district contracted with Whiteriver Unified School District to educate the Fort Apache students, numbering about 200, due to roads being inaccessible between Fort Apache and Young.{{cite news|last=Shaffer|first=Mark|title=Rural schools leaping at 4-day week|newspaper=The Arizona Republic|place=Phoenix, Arizona|date=1984-06-17|pages=B1, B10}} - [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93848345/for-wikieup-school/ Clipping of first] and [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93848457/ of second page] at Newspapers.com. {{As of|2020}} these parts of the reservation are now directly in Whiteriver USD.{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st04_az/schooldistrict_maps/c04007_gila/DC20SD_C04007.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Gila County, AZ|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|accessdate=2022-01-30}}