Lakeland Highlights

August 2024/2025

Superintendent's Message

Superintendent Message

Greetings Lakeland Families! I hope you have had a wonderful summer break. Summer this year has been a typical, beautiful North Idaho summer. It is time to start thinking about going back to school… school supplies, school clothes, and Open Houses. We are excited to have our students back in our buildings. Things are much too quiet when they are away. Our custodial crew has been working tirelessly to ensure that all of our buildings sparkle to welcome students and families back. I hope you have had a chance to drive by Spirit Lake and Athol Elementary schools. They have new siding, doors, and windows and look amazing! A big thank you to the school board for their wise use of COVID dollars to allow for the needed focus on our school buildings!

As part of the new library law that went into effect on July 1, 2024, the district is putting a Library Review Committee in place. This committee will be responsible for reading any book for which a parent or community member submits a form requesting the review of a book for material defined as harmful to children. We would like to make sure that we have several people on this committee so we can share the responsibility of fully reading any book that needs to be reviewed. The link to the Google form is here if you would like to participate.

We will be running the replacement of our supplemental levy on November 5, 2024. Our current levy expires on June 30, 2025. School districts now have only two dates on which to run school elections: November and May. Our budget is due to the Press by the Friday of Memorial Day weekend, which makes May challenging. We have put together a levy page on our district website. The link to that page is here. If you take a look at the site and are looking for a tool or information that you believe would be helpful, but not currently there, please reach out to us and we will work to provide that.

It’s going to be a great school year!

Lisa Arnold

District Highlights

If you have been in Spirit Lake or Athol recently you might have noticed some work being done on their elementary schools. Our Lakeland Board of Trustees was strategic in using our Esser funds for approved operational expenses. This allowed the district to generate fund balance savings to pay for the needed siding improvements to the Lakeland Middle School last summer and now Athol and Spirit Lake Elementary schools.

Upcoming Community Events

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🗓 Important Dates

🏫 August 22 ~ Policy Committee Meeting - 9:00 - 11:00am @District Office

🏫 August 28 ~ Lakeland Middle School Open House 4:00 - 5:30 pm

🏫 August 29 ~ Athol Open House - 6:00 - 7:00 pm

🏫 August 29 ~ Betty Kiefer Open House 5:30 - 7:00 pm

🏫 August 29 ~ Garwood Open House 4:30 - 6:00 pm

🏫 August 29 ~ John Brown Open House 6:00 - 7:00 pm

🏫 August 29 ~ Spirit Lake Elementary Open House 5:00 - 6:00 pm

🏫 August 29 ~ Twin Lakes Elementary Open Hose 5:00 - 7:00 pm

🏫 August 29 ~ Lakeland High School Open House 5:00 - 7:00 pm

🏫 August 29 ~ Mountain View High School Open House 9:00 - 3:00 pm

🏫 August 29 ~ Timberlake Middle School Open House 5:00- 6:00 pm

🏫 August 29 ~ Timberlake High School Open House 4:00 - 6:00 pm

🏫 September 3 ~ FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL - WELCOME BACK!

🏫 September 3 ~ Community/Parent Advocacy @ District Office 4:00 - 5:00 pm

🏫 September 11 ~ Regular Meeting of the LJSD Board of Trustees @District Office 6:00 pm

🏫 September 12 ~ Policy Committee Meeting @District Office 9:00 - 11:00 am

🏫 September 19 ~ Policy Committee Meeting @District Office 9:00 - 11:00 am

🏫 September 26 ~ Committee Meeting @District Office 9:00 - 11:00 am

PLEASE JOIN US!!

Regular Meeting of the LJSD Board of Trustees

Regular School Board Meetings are held at 6:00p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month (unless otherwise posted), at the Lakeland Joint School District Administrative Offices, 15506 N Washington Street, Rathdrum, Idaho.

Special Meeting of the LJSD Board of Trustees

Facilities Work Session and Special Meeting of the LJSD Board of Trustees

Community/Parent Advocacy Group

Parent Advocacy Group ~ this group meets monthly on the first Tuesday of the month from 4:00 - 5:00. Feel free to join us!

We realize that many people are unable to attend our monthly parent advocacy meetings due to time constraints. In an effort to ensure that your questions are answered, we are putting a link on the district website under the Parents/Students tab and then Parent Advocacy where you can provide agenda items you would like to have discussed. If you are unable to attend, you will at least be able to listen to the discussion via the video link for the month. We appreciate your partnership! Thank you for sharing your children with us! We will be sharing the running agenda/minutes here.