St. Johns Lutheran School

Come learn and Grow with us!
Preschool – 8th grade

245 South Line Street
PO Box 189
Wykoff, MN 55990
School Office: 507-352-4671
Email: stjhnsch@hmtel.com

The 2020-2021 School Year
September 8, 2020 through May 28, 2021

School Days and Times
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday – 8:05am to 1:45pm
Children arriving after 8:10 a.m. are considered late unless it is the result of car or bus trouble.

St. Johns Lutheran School is an arm of ministry and mission of St. Johns Lutheran Church. We are here to serve any family who is interested in Christian education. At the present time, approximately fifty percent of our students are not members of our church. All faiths are welcome.

St. Johns offers programs for students three years of age through grade eight. Because of our small size, students receive personal attention. Our classrooms for grades one through eight are multi-grade classrooms. Multi-grade classroom settings can give students excellent opportunity to experience overlapping with curriculum. That means they are being exposed to subject matter from other grade levels before they are accountable. They also have opportunity to review subject material when it is presented to students in different grades. Mult-grade classrooms also require students to become more independent and self-motivated.

Students are encouraged to use their God-given abilities – whether in academics, athletics, or social life – to glorify God their maker. They are encouraged to support and uplift each other. St. Johns Lutheran School is intended to be an outreach of the home, not something to replace the home.

Christian education is the focus of our mission.
Our teachers and staff seek to be a means through which Jesus leads students to the rich and full life that He gives us. To God we give all glory.

St. Johns Lutheran School admits students of any race, color, national, and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.

St. Johns Lutheran School Staff

Mr. Gregory Brand – Principal/Teacher Grades 5th, 6th, 7th & 8th
Mr. Brand graduated from Concordia College-St. Paul in 1986 with a BA in Elementary Education with a concentration in Science/Mathematics. He attended the SLED (School Leadership Development) training program in 2001/2002 in St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. Brand served as a Principal/Teacher in Hutchinson, Minnesota in 2002-2005. He has taught students in Grades 1-8. He started his teaching career in Tallahassee, Florida, in 1986. He moved back to Minnesota in 1992. He has taught in four other schools in Minnesota (Watertown, Winona, Hutchinson, Waconia, respectively). Mr. Brand and his wife, Kelly, live in Chatfield. Mr. Brand is an avid Vikings fan. He likes trout fishing, camping, backpacking, and reading Action Adventure novels in his spare time.
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Mrs. Sharon Meyer – Teacher Multi-Grade and Subjects
Mrs. Meyer graduated Magma Cum Laude from Concordia University Wisconsin in December 1996 with a BA in elementary education. She began substitute teaching immediately in various Lutheran schools in the Milwaukee, WI area. In the spring of 1997, she took a full-time sub position teaching first-grade at Mt. Olive Lutheran School. It was during that time she received her first call to the St. Stephen Lutheran School in Horicon, WI. She served at St. Stephen for seven years; teaching one year of second-grade and six years of fifth-grade. In 2004 she moved to Minnesota and married. In 2008 she began teaching part-time at St. Paul Lutheran School, Chatfield, MN; teaching a variety of subjects in a multi-grade K-8 setting. After eight years at St. Paul she stepped down to stay-at-home and homeschool her two daughters. She has substituted at St. Johns for the last three years. Mrs. Meyer and her family live south of Wykoff.

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Mrs. Susan Nash – Teacher Grades 2nd, 3rd, & 4th
Mrs. Nash is a 2008 graduate of Winona State University. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BS in Elementary Education. Mrs. Nash completed synod certification through the colloquy program with CUENet in the fall of 2009. Prior to teaching 1st-2nd grades, Mrs. Nash taught computer and keyboarding classes at St. Johns. Before her teaching career, Mrs. Nash did daycare in her home.
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Mrs. Rachel Welch – Teacher K & 1st
Mrs. Welch graduated from Mankato State University in 1993 with a BS degree in Elementary education. She obtained her kindergarten license from Augsburg College in the fall of 2006. Prior to teaching at St. Johns, Mrs. Welch taught a variety of subjects and grade levels at Kingsland Public Schools. Mrs. Welch, her husband, and two children, who live on a farm north of Spring Valley, keep busy with 4-H, school, and church activities.
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