School-Start Consultation Services

The goal of the Lutheran Schools of America is to establish two new schools per year within the congregational membership of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod. A broad range of consultation services are available through the national office of Lutheran Schools of America. Congregations are both encouraged and advised to contact the LSA office even if the desire to establish a school is not an absolute certainty but is in the "consideration" phase.

The mission of the administration of LSA is to serve the members of ELS-affiliated congregations by guiding a planning process which appropriately determines the advisability of a school-start/school-expansion decision. In addition to conducting direct school-start/expansion feasibility studies, the professional and consulting staff of LSA can provide the following services:

Pastoral consulting
Leadership development
Volunteer engagement
Strategic, business and budgetary planning
Research gathering (including demographic studies)
Personalized congregational fund-raising
School marketing and promotion
Architectural and design counsel
Professional teacher placement and counsel