Volunteers are an invaluable resource to our teachers and students.
Assignments might involve sitting and reading to preschool children, assisting with separation anxiety at drop off time, playing with children, supervising lunchroom and playground, or sharing a special skill or occupation to enrich classroom learning!
Please contact our office today for more details! Use our contact form or call 605-745-6676 during business hours.
GREAT CHRISTIAN TEACHERS STRIVE TO:
The school opened in 1980 with an enrollment of eight students in kindergarten through 3rd grade. Each year a grade was added so that eventually the staff reached the size of three teachers. During the course of the years as circumstances changed, so did the number of, grades, students and staff.
The facility for the first 11 years was in the Education Building of Bethesda Lutheran Church. Due to growth in 1981, an addition was added to the basic building. In 1992 a completely new educational structure was built as an addition to the existing church structure and serves as the school today.
In 2010 the preschool was added, and in 2018 South Dakota Department of Social Services approved a licensed Child Care program. The Bethesda Lutheran School mascot is the Bald Eagle which comes to us from our school Bible verse which is Isaiah 40:31. The school colors are maroon and grey.
Bethesda Lutheran School and Early Learning Center is part of a larger body of Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Schools consisting of nearly 1,800 Early Childhood Centers, 785 Elementary Schools, and 96 Lutheran High Schools.
Bethesda Lutheran School and Early Learning Center is fully accredited by National Lutheran Schools Accreditation (NLSA) and the State of South Dakota.
We especially wish to recognize the following for their generous gifts:
Pastor John and Kenlyn Merrill
Evans Plunge
Vision Source
Jon Crane Art Gallery
The governance of Bethesda Lutheran School and Early Learning Center rests primarily with the Voter’s Assembly of the congregation. This body executes its will through an elected School Board composed of six persons with the pastor and principal serving as ex-officio members. The School Board The principal is responsible for seeing that the policies and directives of the School Board are carried out on a daily basis.
The School Board has the responsibility for establishing policy; the Principal has the responsibility, with other staff, for determining procedure to carry out the policies.
The policies developed by the School Board and the procedures developed to implement policy are designed to promote a safe, effective and efficient school.
There are policies that are common to all levels of the school, but procedures for implementing them may vary from level to level. The Principal with the teachers establish procedures for conducting activities within their individual levels.
Bethesda Lutheran School admits students of any race,
color, national and ethnic origin to all 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, and other school-administered programs.
Church Email: bethesda@gwtc.net
School Email: bls@goldenwest.net
1537 Baltimore Avenue
Hot Springs, SD 57747
Church Phone: (605) 745-4834
School Phone/Fax: (605) 745-6676