Emmet D. Williams School, built in 1963, serves 503 students in grades kindergarten through six. The school's programs include art, ELL (English Language Learners), physical education, music, special education, and speech language.
Rahn Elementary School has been working closely with the District 191 School Board to bring students and parents the Rahn Incentive Plan. Starting in the fall of 2010, the incentive was to get more students to participate in the K-Plus Program, which is an all-day kindergarten, by lowering the cost.
Now, the school has two, full-day kindergarten classes and one half -day class.
Rahn Elementary also offers regular choir clases to students in grades 3 - 6, and students in grades 4 - 6 can audition for the auditioned choir.
Also, the school collaborated with Envision Academy for the Arts, a school within a school magnet program. Students performed at Mraz, Burnsville High School's Performing Arts Center. Students in grades 4 - 6 will have the opportunity to perform a Broadway play.
Character Counts is very important to the school. Each month, the school discusses a different character trait, and one grade level teaches the other grade levels about character. The school also has a ceremony where parents are invited to attend, and two students receive an award for demonstrating the character trait that was featured the month before.
Rahn Elementary gathers donations every month for Change for Charity. Last year, the school raised 1,200 pounds of food in one month.
Area Learning Center High School supports students, freshmen to seniors, who are at risk of not graduating and need an alternative to the traditional high school environment to help ensure academic success.
The school runs year-round, and students enroll in classes for three weeks at a time, as well as taking one intensive intersession class. School staff strives to make classes interactive and engaging. Students can enter the school at any time during the year, and in any grade from ninth to twelfth. Students can earn 66 credits and a high school diploma at Area Learning Center.
Apple Valley High School is one of four high schools in Apple Valley, and one of six in District 196. Its 1,800 students in grades nine through 12 have the opportunity to participate in numerous extracurricular and athletic activities; the school's mascot nickname is the Eagles. About 90 percent of Apple Valley High School students go on to a two- or four-year college, Principal Steve Degenaar said, and score above average on state standardized tests. The school offers the Advancement Via Individual Determination program, which works to advance average students to higher academic levels. Students have achieved many academic and extracurricular accomplishments, Degenaar said, including: ranked as a top-five speech and debate program nationally; has won at least one state athletic championship annually for the past 27 years; ranked first in number of combined athletic and arts state championships; has a top-ranked wrestling program; "EaglEye" broadcast journalism students won a 2010 Midwest Regional Emmy.
Greenleaf Elementary School serves students in kindergarten through fifth grade, and has an enrollment of more than 900 students. A unique feature at Greenleaf is the CARES program, which stands for cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy and self-control; the program focuses on behavior expectations among the entire student population. The school offers several before- and after-school programs, including chess club, choir and Destination Imagination, and enrichment activities including a fourth-grade kindness retreat, mentoring program and physical education club.