Dakota Elementary School

101 Eagle Way

School District

Minot 1
Grade

PK, K-5
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:12
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by parent on April 18, 2017

The Principle has a deep love for her students and it shows on a daily basis. The special education resources and staff are far beyond any school weve ever experienced and we will be forever grateful for the care and attention they've been able to give our kids
Submitted by parent on June 13, 2013

Dakota has been an amazing school for my daughter! She started going there in preschool for help with her speech and now is entering 2nd grade. We have had amazing teachers and room aids. I've never had an issue with any teacher or staff. The schools in this area are far more advanced academically then others so many parents get overwhelmed by the amount their kids are learning at these levels and kids coming from other schools can be overwhelmed also but the teachers are amazing at sitting down and talking with the parents to form a plan to get the kids up to date.
Submitted by parent on August 14, 2012

The principal at Dakota is a bit cold and rude. She doesn't like for you to pick your child up early and has even made me wait till the class went to lunch before calling them out of class. Having said that most of the teachers are good. There has been a few that should quit. The rest are very nice and truly do care about the kids in their class. I have had a few problems with teachers saying when a child can or can not go to the bathroom. This caused an accident at school. So I had to deal with the teacher on that matter. Also they would tell my child what they could or could not eat for snack time. There were times my child wasn't able to eat the 100 calorie snack pack of chocolate covered pretzels, because the teacher said it wasn't healthy. So once again I had to deal with a teacher. The school does do fun family things though and really does try to involve the family as much as possible. Any school is going to have a few bad marks because we are all human and we make mistakes. Its what we do to fix those mistakes that is going to improve the schools for our children.
Submitted by parent on July 11, 2011

My oldest son has attended both North Plains and Dakota. We have had some good and bad experiences in both schools. I loved the kindergarten teachers, speech teacher and principal at NP. It was the 1st grade teacher that made us switch to Dakota. She was very discouraging and really had nothing good to say about our son. We put him in Dakota and his new 1st grade teacher was an angel. In second grade he phased out of speech therapy and started the Gifted and Talented Program, and has LOVED it. Dakota also has a Early Child Special Education Program that is fantastic with some amazing teachers. The only bad thing I have to say about Dakota is that I don't care for the principal at all, but from the feedback I have received this is a general census. She is rude, unpersonable and cold.
Submitted by parent on May 02, 2011

This scool will turn your kids in to Child services if they are THIN, but not to thin!! The communication between the school and parent isnt that great!!