[3] Lakota was rated 'Excellent with Distinction' in the most recent Ohio Department of Education report card (2010–11), ranking in the top 7% of school districts statewide.

In 1959, the Board of Education built a high school for the district; three years later, a third elementary (Hopewell) was added.

Freedom Elementary opened in 1988, the same year an addition was built onto the high school.

Kindergarten students from most of the elementary schools were consolidated into the Lakota Early Childhood Center, which also holds preschool classes.

In 2003, Van Gorden Elementary (named after the family that donated the land it sits on) and Lakota Plains Junior School were opened, along with a new Central Office Building.

[5] On Labor Day in September 2023, a fire in the Hopewell Junior building broke out in the coach’s office.

When the building was able to be reoccupied, choir, band, all lunch periods, and more stayed at the church.

The Lakota district competes in the Greater Miami Conference (GMC) in 24 varsity sports.

Many schools in the district have received barely sufficient or insufficient in terms of building condition.

The district plans on making preschool its own separate building, instead of operating at VanGorden elementary & Liberty Early Childhood.