Located in the Capital city of Michigan, and in the orbit of Michigan State University, Lansing Christian School is a purposefully academic, coeducational day school with grades pre-school to 12. The community includes over 650 students and 51 faculty. The student/faculty ratio allows warm encouragement and close-knit mentoring relationships. The school operates with elementary, middle, and high school units on a single campus.
History
Lansing Christian School was established in 1950 by a group of families who had a vision for a Preschool-12 Christian school that would be vigorously academic and thoroughly Christian. For more than half a century LCS has partnered with Christian parents to develop the whole student—mind, body, and spirit—providing a challenging academic program with a distinctively Christian worldview. Now we see alumni bringing their children—and even grandchildren—for the education of head and heart that transforms and inspires lives.
Location
Lansing Christian School is blessed with an, attractive, inspiring facility, completed in 2001 on a 67-acre site. The LCS campus includes extensive well-designed athletic fields and a gymnasium. The school is located on the south edge of Lansing, close to main highway interchanges, and within easy commute from East Lansing, Okemos, Holt, and other surrounding towns.
Academic Distinctives
The annual scores of seniors on the ACT are well above the state and national averages. On the most recent Michigan Merit Exams, the average Lansing Christian score was higher than those of all other mid-Michigan schools, including other private schools and the privileged public schools. The interscholastic Math Team has filled a whole case with first-place trophies. On average, 95% of graduates continue on to higher education.
Spiritual Dimension
Students take a course in Bible or religious studies every year they are enrolled, and they participate in weekly chapel and worship activities, and in annual retreats. At Lansing Christian spiritual and moral formation of children and young men and women is important and integrated, not peripheral. We intend that our students will learn—and live—“the first and great commandment”: to “love the Lord their God with all your heart, and soul, and mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
We teach our students that serving others is a normal part of the Christian life; each spring we have a Service Week, during which high school students serve the community. For example, last spring students worked in homes for the elderly and childcare centers, built houses for Habitat for Humanity, and cleaned up and painted local parks. Service to others begins in elementary school in a variety of ways throughout the school.
Accreditation
Since 1996 Lansing Christian has been accredited by the Michigan Association of Non-Public Schools (MANS) and in 2007 the School was accredited by the North Central Association (NCA) as well. The NCA stamp of approval has international recognition. Furthermore, NCA provides a process of peer review and a framework for continuous progress toward excellence in every activity and program of the school
Finances
Lansing Christian has an annual budget of $3.7M, of which about 80% comes from tuition; much of the balance comes from gifts. Tuition ranges from $750 per year for a part-time preschooler to $6,565 for a high school student (see the Tuition Schedule for details). Tuition reductions for second and third children ease the tuition burden on families. The Pilgrim Fund is an annual drive to raise funds for scholarships. A growing endowment also generates funds to “close the gap” between tuition revenue and the actual cost of educating children.
Parent Involvement
LCS partners with parents in the education of their children. We warmly encourage parent involvement in the school. Thousands of volunteer hours by parents every year make the school a success—and help LCS provide an outstanding education at less than the cost of a Michigan public school education. All families are expected to volunteer a minimum of eight hours each year, and many families far exceed that goal.
LCS is owned and operated by the Lansing Christian School Association, to which all parents automatically belong. The Association elects nine School Board members who are responsible to the Association for the school’s operation.
Mission
Recognizing God as the source of all truth, wisdom and knowledge Lansing Christian School partners with Christian parents to educate children to the full extent of their God-given abilities. We engage students in an academically challenging environment that fosters spiritual, intellectual, social, and physical growth. We equip students to exalt God and follow Christ in all of life.
Vision
Lansing Christian School exists to assist Christian parents in their God-given responsibility to provide an excellent education and to prepare their sons and daughters to be men and women who will glorify God by becoming the salt and light of the world.
Beliefs
• We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.
• We believe that there is one God; the source, support, and end of all things; eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
• We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ; in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
• We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful men, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
• We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life, and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
• We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
• We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a Godly life.
