The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation is constructing a $24.7 million, 68,818 sq. ft. education facility on its reservation in northeast Oregon. Approximately 14,000 sq. ft. of the project will be dedicated rent free to the Nixyaawii Community School (NCS), a charter high school of the Pendleton School District. With this investment, NCS will now be able to increase enrollment from 75 to 140 students. The remaining 54,000 sq. ft. will be for early childhood education, after-school programming, language classes and Tribal education department administration offices.