Vision:  Engineering Our Future!

Mission: The mission of Tatanka Elementary School is to support each student's educational journey through collaboration, communication, critical and creative thinking, to become lifelong learners and productive citizens in our ever-changing society.

Tatanka Elementary School opened in the fall of 1980, and at that time was called Buffalo Primary School.  It was a first, second and third grade building.  Dean Skallerud was the principal until 2000.  In the fall of 1997 Buffalo Primary School went to a kindergarten through grade five building and was renamed Tatanka Elementary.  Gail Feneis was principal from 2000-2005, and Don Metzler has been Tatanka's principal from 2005 to the present.  Tatanka Elementary's average enrollment is 500 students.