# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S310
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PARISH EDUCATION 309

and to each District Board for Parish Education. They will “be
found useful as conferences or individual congregations address
themselves to a further study of an effective confirmation program.

F. High Schools

In 1944 Synod assigned to the Board for Parish Education
responsibility for the promotion and guidance of Lutheran second-
ary schools. The Board has provided counsel and guidance to
communities interested in the development of a Lutheran high
school program and has been represented at the annual meetings
of the Association of Lutheran Secondary Schools.

During the past triennium there has been progress in the high
school program. In 1953 the Lutheran High School, Los Angeles,
Calif., opened its doors. The increased enrollment at this school
has already necessitated a second building program. In 1954 the
Walther Lutheran High School, Melrose Park, on the West Side
of Chicago, was opened. In 1955 the high school at Denver, Colo.,
was opened. Also in 1955 a new congregational high school was
opened at the Bronx, New York City, by Our Savior Church. The
existing Lutheran high schools also experienced large increases
in enrollment and the necessity of expansion operations in some
instances. In Milwaukee the Missouri Synod congregations have
opened a high school of their own in September 1955. Formerly
a school was conducted jointly with Wisconsin Synod congregations.
In St. Louis an expansion program was undertaken for the develop-
ment of two high schools, instead of the one school that has been
‘in operation since 1946. Also in Detroit a large expansion program
is under way.

Figures for the 1955—56 school year indicate the following
enrollment in our Lutheran high schools.

Lutheran High School Enrollments, 1955—56

Founded Name and Location of School Enrollment
1903 Lutheran High School, Milwaukee, Wis. -—— _ 803
1909 Luther High School North, Chicago, Tl. —.____. 830
1916 Concordia Lutheran High, Fort Wayne, Ind. —~~ 473
1943 Lutheran High School, Racine, Wis. --...—~--- _ 324
1944 Lutheran High School, Detroit, Mich. --._. 519
1946 Lutheran High School, St. Louis, Mo. —.-.---------- 762
4948 Lutheran High School, Cleveland, Ohio 411
1949 Lutheran High School, Houston, Tex. —— 237
4951 Luther High School South, Chicago, Il. —.___. 646
1953 Lutheran High School, Los Angeles, Calif. 246
1954. Walther Lutheran High School, Melrose Park, Ill. 235
1955 Lutheran High School, Denver, Colo, --—.—____- 81
1955 Our Savior Lutheran High School, Bronx, New

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