Magnet Schools in Dakota County, Minnesota
Dakota County has 4 schools identified in the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection as operating a magnet program. All of them are whole-school magnets, meaning the magnet program covers the entire school.
- 4 magnet schools and programs
- 4 whole-school magnets
- 3 cities and towns
Magnet status is based on the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection, the latest federal collection available for magnet classification.
School enrollment, grades and contact details are from NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25.
Magnet schools in Dakota County
Listed alphabetically. Nothing here is ranked, scored or ordered by anything the federal collections do not record.
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Cedar Park Elementary
Apple Valley, MN
● Whole-school magnet
- Grades
- K-5
- Enrollment
- 722
- Level
- Elementary
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Diamond Path Elementary
Apple Valley, MN
● Whole-school magnet
- Grades
- K-5
- Enrollment
- 686
- Level
- Elementary
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Garlough Elementary
West Saint Paul, MN
● Whole-school magnet
- Grades
- K-4
- Enrollment
- 414
- Level
- Elementary
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Glacier Hills Elementary
Eagan, MN
● Whole-school magnet
- Grades
- K-5
- Enrollment
- 707
- Level
- Elementary
What “magnet” means on this page
Whole-school magnet
The magnet program applies across the school. Every student attending is part of it.
Magnet program
The school offers a magnet program to part of its student population, alongside its other classes.
Other schools listed in Dakota County
These are the other schools this directory holds for Dakota County. They are not identified as magnet schools in the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection.
- Bluesky Charter School West Saint Paul, MN Charter
- Paideia Academy Charter School Apple Valley, MN Charter
- Prairie Creek Community School Northfield, MN Charter
- River Heights Charter School West Saint Paul, MN Charter
- Sobriety High South Burnsville, MN Charter
- Tarek Ibn Ziyad Academy Inver Grove Heights, MN Charter
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