St. Mark’s Lutheran School
Information
Address: 2220 Anne St. NW, Bemidji, MN 56601
Telephone: (218) 444-3939
E-mail: stmark@paulbunyan.net
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church started a Lutheran elementary school in September of 1984. The elementary school is currently a one room school with classes for students in grades 1st-8th. The teacher is Mr. Nathan Bitter and assisted by Pastor Lon Kuether and volunteers from the congregation. The school’s primary purpose is to aid in the Christian education of the members of St. Mark’s Lutheran. If space is available, children of parents who are not members may enroll.
This past school year there were 17 students enrolled in 1st through 8th grade. St. Mark’s offers a full curriculum that includes math, science, social studies, reading, phonics, language, spelling, handwriting, and, most importantly, the study of God’s Word. The Word of God classes for the 1st through 4th graders are the teaching of Bible stories. The 5th – 8th grade students have catechism instruction in addition to these bible story lessons. Because we are teaching the children our church doctrine parents that are not members of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church need to meet with Pastor Kuether a few times before their child can be enrolled, so that the parents and Pastor Kuether can discuss some of the key points that will come up in the religion classes.