Lancaster Mennonite School
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°01′39″N 76°13′23″W / 40.027483°N 76.223145°WCoordinates: 40°01′39″N 76°13′23″W / 40.027483°N 76.223145°W |
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| Funding type | Private school |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Mennonite |
| Established | 1942 |
| Superintendent | Pam Tieszen |
| Enrollment | Approximately 1,400 |
| Color(s) | Black and gold |
| Athletics | 16 interscholastic sports |
| Athletics conference | Lancaster-Lebanon League |
| Mascot | Blazers |
| Website | www.lancastermennonite.org |
Lancaster Mennonite School is a private Christian school with five campuses in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States, and one in Hershey, Dauphin County. The Lancaster Campus, east of the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, serves students in grades six through twelve. The high school on the Lancaster Campus is known as Lancaster Mennonite High School. The nearby Locust Grove Campus provides pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. To the southwest of Lancaster city, the New Danville Campus offers pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. In northwest Lancaster County, the Kraybill Campus has students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. The Hershey Campus, in Hummelstown, offers kindergarten through high school. Altogether, the school had a total enrollment of approximately 1,462 students at the end of the 2016-17 school year.
Lancaster Mennonite School is now composed of six campuses, founded as separate schools.
Locust Grove Mennonite School was founded in 1939, and New Danville Mennonite School in 1940, to offer grades one through eight. The Lancaster Conference of the Mennonite Church began the development of a Christian high school, Lancaster Mennonite School, on the site of the former Yeates School in 1942. To better serve families in northwest Lancaster County, Lancaster Mennonite School then helped to start Kraybill Mennonite School in 1949, which originally provided first through tenth grade.
Although each school was founded independently, the schools shared a common mission, values, and constituency, and eventually decided to work together as a comprehensive PreK-12 system under the name of Lancaster Mennonite School. New Danville merged with Lancaster in 2001, followed by Locust Grove in 2003 and Kraybill in 2006. Hershey Christian School was acquired in February, 2015. Saint James School -- an LM early childhood education program -- was established in downtown Lancaster through a partnership with Saint James Episcopal Church for the 2017-18 school year, initially offering prekindergarten.
The Lancaster Campus has two residence halls for boarding students that together house about 60 out-of-state and international students attending Lancaster Mennonite High School. Millstream Hall, completed in February, 2015, holds the majority of students, with some choosing the older Graybill Hall.
The G. Parke Book Building, renovated in 2004, is home to specialized agriculture and technology classrooms. The Calvin and Janet High Fine Arts Center contains an 1,168-seat auditorium, music rooms and art rooms.
A two-story building provides classroom space for the middle school on the lower level and the high school on the upper level, along with the Alumni Dining Hall and library.
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