Dakota Elementary School
Grades Served:
PK–6
Total Square Footage:
49,000 new
5,680 remodeled
Occupancy Date:
Fall 2000
Cost:
Estimate: $4,525,440
General Contractor:
Rockford Structures
Rockford, Illinois
Mechanical Consultant:
KJWW Engineering
Rock Island, Illinois
This addition and remodeling project to the Elementary School was the end result of a Space Needs Study completed for the District. The directive was to convert the existing K-4 building into a K-6 facility.

A 49,000 square foot addition to the elementary school will produce the new PreK-6 facility, increasing the footprint of this single-story school by over 250%. This dramatic increase is due in part to a reconfigured enrollment attendance, new space for relocation of the District Administrative Offices as well as the desire to recreate the building as a greater asset to the community. As such, a high school-sized Gymnasium with Lockerrooms and Showers comprises a significant portion of the addition.

Other new spaces include: 14 Classrooms, a Computer Lab, a Learning Resources Center, a Music Room, General Office, Nurse’s Station, and Teacher’s Lounge. Two new Kindergarten plus two new Daycare rooms combined with remodeling of an Early Childhood and two Kindergarten rooms locate all of the District’s youngest members in the same place.

The existing library transformed provides an ample Art Room. Remodeled Reading Recovery, Special Education, and Title I rooms complete the interior reconfiguration.

(From Top) Looking northeast at the New Addition comprised of new Classrooms and Media Center; Inside the Media Center; Gymnasium; Daycare Room; Night shot of New Main Entrance. Link to other pictures of this school.

Photos taken by Nels Akerlund