District 271 serves 10160 students in the city of Coeur d’Alene, the townships of Dalton Gardens, Hayden and Hayden Lake, and a portion of rural Kootenai County. District facilities include 10 elementary schools (one of which includes a preschool for children with special needs), three middle schools, two high schools, an alternative high school and a dropout retrieval school. All schools are accredited. The district has an impressive list of achievements and has been home to five of Idaho's last 12 Teachers of the Year. The District's first magnet school, Sorensen Magnet School for the Arts Humanities, opened in the fall of 2007. It's second magnet school, Lakes Magnet Middle School, opened in Fall of 2009 with an emphasis on science, health and the arts.