Zion Lutheran School is a PreK-8 Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) school in Lake Stevens, founded in 1901 — among the oldest continuously-operating private schools in Snohomish County. Total enrollment runs around 296 students (257 in K-8), with a student-teacher ratio of approximately 14:1. The school is the dominant non-Catholic Christian K-8 in the Lake Stevens / Granite Falls area.
Within the LCMS school network in Western Washington, Zion's peer set includes Trinity Lutheran (Bothell, K-8), Faith Lutheran (Redmond, K-8), and Concordia Lutheran (Tacoma, K-8) — a small denominational cohort that shares curriculum frameworks and athletics through the Northwest District LCMS. Regionally, Zion competes for evangelical and traditional-Christian families against Cedar Park Christian (Bothell), Cascade Christian (Puyallup), and the Snohomish-area Catholic K-8s.
The academic program is conventional Christian-school college-prep with Lutheran catechesis integrated across grades. Co-curriculars include robotics, knowledge bowl, Japanese language, and middle-school athletics through the standard small-school league. Graduates typically continue to Cedar Park Christian's high school, Lake Stevens public schools, or the regional Catholic high schools (Archbishop Murphy in Everett). The 1901 founding and continuity through five generations of Lake Stevens families is a meaningful part of the school's identity.
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