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To schedule an appointment with Superintendent Levi Bachmeier, please contact Jill Schwab, Executive Staff Officer, at (701) 328-3264.
To request an appearance, please fill out this form.
Levi Bachmeier is the state school superintendent and administrator of the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction. The superintendent and his team oversee the education of public and nonpublic school students in more than 220 districts and systems across the state. Bachmeier was appointed superintendent by Gov. Kelly Armstrong on Oct. 21, 2025. He took office Nov. 24, 2025.
Superintendent Bachmeier is an advocate for developing young people as patriotic citizens and is committed to ensuring schools work hand-in-hand with families and communities to ensure North Dakota students are thriving and Choice Ready. This means graduating students who are prepared for college, career, or the military, are physically and mentally healthy, and are ready to seize the opportunity to build meaningful lives and careers in North Dakota.
He serves on more than a dozen boards, including the Education Standards and Practices Board, the North Dakota Children’s Cabinet, the K-12 Education Coordination Council, the Board for Career and Technical education, and the Board of University and School Lands, which manages state landholdings and oversees a $7.76 billion trust fund (as of May 31, 2025) that benefits North Dakota’s public schools. He is chair of a state committee that screens candidates for the North Dakota Board of Higher Education.
Superintendent Bachmeier’s administrative responsibilities include oversight of the North Dakota School for the Deaf/Resource Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Devils Lake, North Dakota Vision Services/School for the Blind in Grand Forks, the North Dakota Center for Distance Education in Fargo, and the North Dakota State Library in Bismarck.
Before he was sworn in as superintendent, Superintendent Bachmeier held several roles dedicated to supporting the education and development of young people.
He began his career teaching high school social studies and coaching football and track and field at Crazy Horse School in Wanblee, S.D., on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He later served as a policy advisor to North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, focusing on K–12 education, and rose to become director of the governor’s policy team.
Bachmeier returned to West Fargo in the fall of 2019, where he grew up and graduated from West Fargo High School in 2010, to serve as business manager for the West Fargo Public Schools. He also coached pole vaulting, where he supported several conference and state champions.
As business manager, Bachmeier worked to maximize the district’s return on investment of taxpayer funds; raised its Moody’s credit rating to the highest of any North Dakota school district; restructured the budget to maximize teacher salary increases while staying within property tax limits; and helped engage school district patrons to approve a bond issue of almost $100 million to accommodate the district’s growth and facility needs.
Superintendent Bachmeier is a native of West Fargo, N.D. He graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, with a degree in social studies education and a minor in coaching in 2014. He holds a certificate in educational finance from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Levi is blessed with four wonderful females in his life: wife Rachel, daughters Linden and Roslin, and rescue pup Sunka. In their free time, the Bachmeiers can be found hiking the North Dakota Badlands and attending high school activities