About Our School

Dakota Middle School, constructed in 2020, is located in Northwest Rochester and serves approximately 1000 students in Sixth (6) to Eighth (8) grade. Dakota is a welcoming neighborhood school, striving to ensure that all students individual needs are known, met and celebrated. 

Two female dakota students building a robot in a STEM activity

INSPIRE

Student smiling at the camera while sitting at a cafeteria table

CHALLENGE

Interactive Dakota teacher giving students a lesson in class while the students take notes at their desks.

EMPOWER

Two students in class smiling at the camera

Two male students working on a STEM building exercise with toothpicks and marshmellows at a desk.

Two female students leaning on the railing of the first floor while smiling at the camera .