Our School
Welcome to Dan Mini Elementary
Dan Mini Elementary is a TK-5 school dedicated to being a diverse, full-service community institution. Our mission is to create a student-centered, equity-focused, and data-driven educational experience. We prioritize inclusionary practices and strive to provide safe, supportive, and kind learning environments for all students.
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Fostering Future Leaders
Our vision is to cultivate lifelong learners, change agents, ambassadors of peace, and exemplary leaders who will positively impact our community and the world. We will achieve this by creating and sustaining a college and career focus, using inquiry-based learning, and fostering student engagement, growth, and achievement in literacy and math for all Dan Mini Scholars.
Our Namesake
Dan Mini, our school's namesake, was born in Gudo, Switzerland, on Feb. 22, 1852, and immigrated to the United States at age 20, eventually settling in Napa in 1872. He worked as a winemaker before forming a dairy partnership with his brother Lorenzo in 1874. Their dairy, located three miles north of Vallejo, became the largest in the area and expanded into Vallejo in 1902. The partnership dissolved in 1908, and Dan retired to his ranch, which later became the site of our school. Mini passed away in 1921, leaving eight children and numerous grandchildren, with local streets named after the Mini family members.
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