Prompted by their belief in the Lord's command, "Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you," the members of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church voted to begin a Lutheran school. In September of 1948, a class was started with 12 children enrolled in kindergarten class. During the next four years, the growth was slow but steady.In 1952, the congregation voted to apply for a teacher to serve as its first principal and teach grades 1-5. Mr. Ralph Bickel accepted this assignment and served until July of 1967.

The enrollment in the fall of 1952 totaled 48 pupils in two kindergarten classes and 9 children in grades 1-5. Classes were conducted in an old frame house. Because of increased enrollment during the next few years, a new five-room school was built on the old church property at Northeast First Street and Fifth Avenue and was dedicated in the fall of 1956.



This building proved adequate until 1963, when an eight-room facility was dedicated on the new six-acre plot at Northwest Fourth Street and Swinton Avenue. In the fall of 1965, Trinity School was teaching students from kindergarten through seventh grade.