In the 20th century area residents gathered $15,000 and volunteered their time so this school could be built. According to Edgar Bond, from Ramah, who served as a school board member, 28,000 hours were spent by residents to build the school. This was done as the
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) had plans to build a dormitory for area Native Americans. Ramah area residents donated another parcel of land to the BIA, where the dormitory was built. In 1952 Ramah Navajo Native Americans were to vote on whether to send their children to the Ramah dormitory. After the Ramah Navajo approved the dormitory idea, the proposal was that the U.S. federal government would pay the New Mexico authorities for any Native American children attending New Mexican public schools. In 1954 this dormitory opened, which allowed the majority of residents of the Ramah Navajo Reservation to attend public schools close to their residences. In 1968 the school had 58 students in grades 9-12 and 61 students in grades 7-8. The Ramah High building became condemned in 1968. By December 1968 the school board was considering how to sell or give away the school site. The closure of the high school meant the dormitories became elementary only, and so Ramah Navajo people once again had to board at faraway BIA boarding schools. After legal battles and advocacy, the Ramah Navajo opened the Ramah Navajo High School in the former Ramah High School, now leased. The lease at that location ended in 1975, so the school moved to Pine Hill and became
Pine Hill Schools. In 1983 Ramah High reopened. ==Athletics==