Vision

In the fall of 2009, the St. Paul’s Lutheran School Community recognized the need to chart a course for a future that meets the needs of a changing culture, but strongly embraces the core Christian values upon which this school was founded over fifty years ago and which will always remain at the heart of our educational ministry. Our vision was developed by a collaboration of school board members, staff, and parents and was compressed into a three year plan, recognizing the importance and urgency of adapting to the environment in which we find ourselves.

The vision began with the year already in progress. It identified the need to hire an admissions director, begin to incorporate new technology and initiate an accreditation process through a national as well as regional agency (dual accreditation). For school year 2010-11 it included hiring a music teacher, continuing to add to the technology, and increase our commitment to financial aid to families in need. By God’s grace, we have accomplished all of these goals, hiring an admissions director in February, installing interactive white boards in our middle school classrooms in mid-year, and taking the first steps in the long accreditation process. We also brought in new computers, creating a one-to-one environment in grades 5 – 8, with class access to a full set of computers for grades 1 – 4 on a sign-out basis. We were also able to hire the music teacher that we had hoped, and we are continuing down the accreditation road. We have also significantly increased our commitment to financial aid, with the goal that no family that sincerely desires to be part of our school will be prohibited due to financial constraints.

Still in our future is the completion of accreditation, the addition of a foreign language, continuing the pursuit of increasingly higher levels of academic excellence, and – our one long-term goal – breaking ground for a multi-purpose facility, to include a gymnasium, by the fall of 2014.

It has been an exciting journey so far, and we recognize the challenge of meeting our timeline. Some goals have not been met yet, but we look forward to continuing down that path, with God at our side.

School Structure

St. Paul’s is comprised of a preschool program that includes a two morning pre-k 3-year-old and a three morning 4-year-old class, a kindergarten through fifth grade elementary program, and a sixth through eighth grade middle school program. Our kindergarten program can either be a half day or a full day option. These groups are not separate, but meet together in the morning. When the half day students leave for the day, the full day students eat lunch and move on to an afternoon that builds on the morning instruction. A rest time is also part of the schedule.

The elementary level is mostly self-contained, with the exception of physical education and fine arts. Our middle school is departmentalized, with students moving among different classrooms. This part of the school is separate from the elementary school, located in large, airy, light and newer classrooms, and equipped with SMART inter-active white board technology and a 1 to 1 computer environment.