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About our District:
Coeur d'Alene Public Schools is an education leader, promoting opportunities for innovation in learning and inspiring excellence in everyone. Our mission statement: we invest in each student to prepare, challenge and advance well-educated, resilient and future-ready citizens.
Currently, we serve nearly 11,000 students in Coeur d’Alene, Dalton Gardens, Hayden, Hayden Lake, and a portion of rural Kootenai County. Our district includes 16 schools: 10 elementary schools, three middle schools, two traditional high schools, and an alternative high school. We also offer opportunities for students at a joint professional-technical high school campus (KTEC) shared by neighboring Lakeland and Post Falls school districts.
We provide educational choices with three magnet programs: Sorensen Magnet School of the Arts and Humanities and Ramsey Magnet School of Science (both elementary), and Lakes Magnet Middle School with an emphasis on Science, Arts and Health. While similar courses and programs are available district-wide, the magnet schools attract students by offering unique opportunities for in-depth experiences and study in specific areas of interest. Other elementary schools of choice include Hayden Meadows, adopting an emphasis on technology, and Fernan STEM Academy, offering a science, technology, engineering, and math focus. The district also offers Advanced Placement (AP) opportunities for qualifying high school students, as well as dual enrollment programs with institutions such as the University of Idaho and North Idaho College.
We have a district-wide graduation rate of 88.4% for 2015-2016 — an improvement of 3.5% from 2014-2015. We pride ourselves on being Idaho’s highest performing large school district in many measures of student achievement. While all the latest data is not yet available, the 2014-2015 statistics shows our students outscore other large districts in Idaho on additional measures of achievement and excellence and our overall graduation rate has increased by 10% in the last ten years. The percentage of our high school students who continue on to college (or professional-technical certification) exceeds both state and national averages, with better second-year retention, and our students have higher numbers of advanced credits entering college than other Idaho school districts.
As the county’s second largest employer, Coeur d’Alene Public Schools has more than 1,300 employees. The District has shown strong financial stewardship of taxpayer dollars and holds the lowest overall tax rate of Idaho’s 20 largest school districts.
Learning doesn’t have to stop when the last school bell rings. As lazy days of summer loom, parents can encourage steps for keeping kids intellectually engaged...
Fifth-grader Ashton Thompson’s summer is off to a fast start. The Borah Elementary student has been wanting a bicycle to join or go see his friends, so when his name was among those drawn ...
About $24,300 was raised for the Coeur d'Alene School District's 10 elementary schools during the sixth annual Run for 271 on June 3 at McEuen Park. More than 740 students and
In her six years training students in the Math is Cool program at Skyway Elementary School, Tracy O’Brien said she always dreamed one of the teams would move on past the regional competition.
Fifth-graders from three different Coeur d’Alene elementary schools explored their interests in water Thursday at McEuen Park.
Critics claim the popular Netflix series “13 Reasons Why” glamorizes and therefore encourages suicide. Judging by an alarming Kootenai Health youth hospitalization trend and other reactions, the critics might be right.
A 7-year-old boy stumbled into the room, the soles of his shoes torn away from his feet. The soles caught and dragged on the ground, making it difficult for the boy to walk, let alone run and play with the other kids.
At the annual Buddy and a Book breakfast this morning at Bryan Elementary School, kids and families heard about a new effort in Coeur d'Alene Schools to give literacy a boost for students in K-3rd Grade.
“Sometimes you want to change the world, and sometimes you just need to know that you’re changing it right now. You’re making a difference right now, even if it’s just one person or it’s 200 people, you’re changing people’s lives..."
Woodland Middle School students donated $500 to the Union Gospel Mission on Wednesday, money earned selling coffee to teachers.
A FREE program encouraging kids to make healthy food choices by empowering them to shop for, grow and prepare fresh fruits and vegetables.
Check out eBooks from a personal computer, phone, tablet or iPad from the CdA Schools OverDrive website!
RESULTS OF THE 2016-17 STRATEGIC DIRECTION SURVEY
The recent 2016-17 Strategic Direction Survey shows that our students, families feel positively about the learning environments, instruction, expectations, individualization and community engagement provided by our district!
The survey was revised this year to be more user friendly and more than 6037 parents, students, staff took the survey. For example, according to the data:
Full survey data can be seen here:
STUDENT Responses l PARENT & FAMILY Responses
ADMINISTRATIVE Responses l CLASSIFIED STAFF Responses
