A Christ-centered education in a Family atmosphere offering Quality academics among Highly-involved students
2024-2025 School Year
St. Mark Lutheran School, founded in 1984, is a private school where students grades Kindergarten through 8th are taught a Christian based curriculum. Enrollment is limited for an optimum learning experience. Our school values are summarized below; please download our brochure for greater detail. Thank you for considering St Mark Lutheran School!
Christ-centered
The school’s dedication to a Christ-centered education is clear from our school’s formal objectives:
- To help each child grow in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior from sin.
- To train our children in their thinking, attitudes, and actions, so that by application of the Word they may willingly, out of love for their Savior, live their lives in conformity to the Word of God.
- To teach God’s Word in its truth and purity, diligently, and systematically,
- To provide a complete elementary education of high quality.
- To teach all subject matter from a Scriptural viewpoint.
- To enable pupils to live in daily Christian fellowship.
- To teach Christian citizenship, grounded in obedience to God’s Work.
- To strengthen the Christian home and congregation and the Church at large.
Family Atmosphere
“The more we learned [about multi-grade classrooms], the more we realized that grouping children like a family is a more logical and humane way to raise children, educationally speaking… And frankly, we are highly impressed with the effect the family-grouped classroom had upon our at-risk learners, our gifted learners…our late bloomers and everyone in between. “
– Michael Gurian, Boys and Girls Learn Differently! (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishing, 2001) p. 314
Quality Academics
We have a full curriculum that includes math, science, social studies, reading, language, spelling, handwriting, and, most importantly, the study of God’s Word. The Word of God classes for Kindergarten through 3rd graders are the basic Bible stories. The 4th – 8th grade students have catechism instruction in addition to bible story lessons.
Research evidence indicates that multi-grade instruction has a significant positive impact on student attitudes, and tends to enhance achievement outcomes – US Dept. of Education
Highly Engaged Students
Our limited enrollment allows our teachers and volunteers to spend a great deal of time in small student groups and one-one. This environment keeps the students engaged in their studies, and also promotes a close teacher/parent relationship.
Testimonials from School Parents
The WELS Lutheran School System
The WELS private school system ( i.e. parochial, or church operated schools ) is the fourth largest private school system in America, operating more than 350 schools nationwide. We have been blessed with experience: WELS congregations have operated elementary schools for over 150 years. In addition, the WELS has developed and maintains a strong support system for WELS schools and teachers. Since our teachers may be called to serve in a wide variety of settings, from large schools in the city to small schools operated by a rural congregation, WELS teachers are graduated uniquely equipped to teach in multigrade classrooms. Upon their children’s graduation from St. Mark, parents might consider Great Plains Lutheran High School, another fine WELS school.
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