Original Research by School Decision on Navit - Navit Courses
NAVIT, formally the Northern Arizona Vocational Institute of Technology, is not a school where students spend their full day or earn their diploma. It is a career and technical education district that offers specialized courses to high school students enrolled in partner school districts across Navajo County. A student at Show Low High School or another member district, for example, might take a period or two at a NAVIT campus or in a NAVIT program to study welding, health sciences, automotive technology, or another trade pathway, while remaining a student of their home high school for core academics and graduation.
Because of this structure, the standard set of public-facing academic indicators does not apply. State assessment results are not reported for NAVIT as a standalone entity, since its students are tested through their home districts. There is no graduation rate to report for the same reason. The enrollment and demographic data fields are empty at this level; NAVIT serves students from across a wide region, but those students are not counted as NAVIT’s own enrollment. A parent considering a NAVIT program should understand that the academic performance context—proficiency rates, chronic absenteeism, discipline data—lives with the sending school, not with NAVIT itself.
Program offerings were not available in the data provided. The school is classified as a career and technical school serving grades nine through twelve. It is not a charter school. It is located in Show Low, on Thornton Road near the Show Low Regional Airport. Show Low functions as a regional service and tourism hub for the White Mountains area. The city has a low-density, auto-dependent built environment, with schools distributed across town rather than clustered in a single district campus. Major employers include the regional medical center, Walmart, the Show Low Unified School District, and several retail and telecommunications firms. Housing values in the area are close to the state benchmark, and the local economy is driven by tourism, healthcare, retail, and light manufacturing.
The parent district, Northern Arizona Vocational Institute of Technology, is a joint technical education district. Searches for recent district-level changes—such as curriculum overhauls, property tax shifts, or facility plans—turned up no specific parent-relevant developments with lasting impact. This is typical for a regional vocational district, where most operational and financial news comes from the individual member school boards.
For a family, the core question is not whether NAVIT is a good school in the traditional sense, but which programs it offers and whether a student’s home school permits participation. The quality of the experience will depend on the specific instructor, the equipment in the lab or shop, and the student’s own readiness to split their day between two school settings. A parent would want to contact NAVIT directly for a current course catalog and talk to their home school’s guidance office about how credits transfer and what the schedule looks like. Without test scores or a graduation rate, this is a choice about pathway and access rather than school performance.
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