[2] The immersion program was started during the 2000–2001 academic school year by the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians.

[3] The school was primarily conceived to preserve the Ojibwe (Anishinaabe)-language in Wisconsin, where only a few dozen elderly native speakers were estimated to remain in 2019.

[4] Waadookodaading is physically connected to the English-language Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe School, but functions autonomously.

[5] In addition to state and federally-mandated academic requirements, Waadookodaading provides cultural activities such as harvesting wild rice and syrup, as well as snowshoeing.

[10] In December 2024, the school announced that it received a $1.5 million donation from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott.