SAXONY LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL, UP AND RUNNING, CAN ONLY GROW WITH TIME

Imagine, if you can, attending a high school with a total enrollment of seven students.

It would be an unusual experience.

But that will be the experience for the seven students enrolled at Saxony Lutheran High School, which today begins the second week of its first year in existence.

Saxony, the first Lutheran high school in Southeast Missouri, is meeting temporarily at St. Andrew Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau. Plans are in the next three to five years to build a high school on a 40-acre site at Fruitland that the high school association already has purchased.

School organizers had hoped to have as many as 50 students in the freshman and sophomore classes this opening year, but seven is actually about average for the first year of any new Lutheran high school, organizers said.

More than 20 Missouri Synod Lutheran churches have offered to support the school, which is open to both Lutheran and non-Lutheran students.

Enrollment will grow, but with anything new it takes time, and organizers are aware of that fact.

With interest in alternatives to traditional public education growing, offering a high school education in which Christianity is included can only lead to the success of Saxony Lutheran High School.