News & Announcements

On Friday, March 14th join Lakota LEADS and the Lakota community to celebrate Pi Day the best way we know how – with awesome hands-on STEAM activities! Come see what our many exhibitors have in store for you. They are waiting to share their love of math and science with you!

Lots of exhibitors and lots of hands-on fun! Join Lakota LEADS for a full evening of fun at this year's Pi Day happening March 14 from 6:30 - 9 p.m. at Plains Junior School. There will be many STEAM based hands-on activities that will entertain your K-8 students! 

Gifted Resource Fair will be held on Saturday, March 8th from 9am - 12:30pm at the Hamilton County Educational Services Center, at 11083 Hamilton Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45231

Lakota Gifted Services provides second opportunity testing to meet the cognitive score requirement.

Gifted Services is accepting applications for Early Entrance into Kindergarten and 1st grade for the 2025-26 school year until Thursday, June  12. Requests submitted after the stated deadline will only be honored for those newly enrolled into the district.

Wrapped up in a record-breaking year for Shawnee Early Childhood School’s “Disney Dash” was a lot of commitment, creativity and community spirit. The same could be said of all the fall fundraising traditions spanning Lakota’s schools. In fact, Lakota’s 14 K-6 parent volunteer groups have collectively raised over $290,000 this school year so far, not counting two schools whose flagship fundraisers are still ongoing.

Live webinar is Tuesday September 4th, 2024 from 7pm-8pm plus time for questions over Zoom.

Attend and Learn: - How to make the best choice between the SAT and ACT - When your child should ideally take the first(and last) test - create a personalized timeline - How much preparation is typically needed for best scores.

DI Program Information and Q&A Meetings:

Monday, August 26^th at 6pm  in the cafeteria at Independence Elementary
Wednesday, Sept 4^th at 7pm in the cafeteria at Union Elementary

In addition to the supplies provided by your school, students in grades K-8 are asked to provide a few additional items before the first day of school. Use TeacherLists, a free new resource, to easily find your list and even shop online for the best prices on all your back-to-school supplies, if desired. High school students will continue to receive supply lists from their teachers when school starts.

Beginning Monday, June 10, ParentSquare is replacing Lakota's current notification system for sending email, phone and text alerts to all Lakota families and staff. The new, more unified school-to-home communication tool was piloted by eight Lakota schools during the last month of the 2023-2024 school year. 

For parents and staff, no action will be required to continue receiving communications, but log into your account via OneLogin to customize your communications experience and get the most out of ParentSquare.

Gifted Services is accepting applications for Early Entrance into Kindergarten and 1st grade for the 2024-25 school year until Friday, June 14. Any applications received after this date will not be considered before the start off the school year.

Congratulations to all our Lakota Destination Imagination teams that competed at the state tournament held at Lakota East High School this past Saturday!

Please see important message below from Interim Superintendent, Elizabeth Lolli, Ph.D.

This Friday, March 15th join Lakota LEADS and the Lakota community to celebrate Pi Day the best way we know how – with awesome hands-on STEAM activities!

The Regional Destination Imagination (DI) tournament was held on Saturday, March 2nd. Lakota has 13 teams with over 85 students participating in DI this year.

VanGorden's 5th grade gifted group has almost completed their gingerbread village project in which they practiced finding the area, surface area, and volume of structures, all while using precise metric measurements to the nearest tenth of a centimeter!

A valuable resource for planning summer activities and beyond is published each year by the Gifted staff at HCESC.