WELS Schools - Lower Enrollment, Higher Costs

Enrollments

• Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, Mequon, WI: 173
On-campus: 132 (seniors–40, middlers–45, juniors–46, PSI–1)
Off-campus: 41 (vicars–40, emergency service–1)

• Martin Luther College, New Ulm, MN: 692 on-campus (education–509, pre-seminary–171, unclassified–12)

• Michigan Lutheran Seminary, Saginaw, MI: 218
111 boys and 107 girls (seniors–56, juniors–56, sophomores–55, freshmen–51)

• Luther Preparatory School, Watertown, WI: 328
166 boys and 162 girls (seniors–80, juniors–75, sophomores–95, freshmen–78)

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GJ - Let's do the math. They once had four preps and two colleges, with higher enrollments and much lower tuition. Now they have closed two prep schools and one college, raised tuition to a Lexus level, and...

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MLS Veteran has left a new comment on your post "WELS Schools - Lower Enrollment, Higher Costs":

Wow, those enrollments at the 2 prep schools really are low.

Perhaps we are comparing apples to oranges, however,

Back in my day, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, there were almost no area WELS Lutheran High Schools.

Now, there are quite a few.

So perhaps many of the students who normally would have went off to high school away from home now attend a nearby Lutheran high school.

It really is a big decision for both parents and students to leave home at 13 or 14.

How many would really want their young 'uns to face the infamous "Zex" year?

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "WELS Schools - Lower Enrollment, Higher Costs":

After what poor MLS had to go thru just to stay alive for another year, who would be inspired to go there? Who knows when the threat of closing will pop up again and no doubt it will. It's hard to get someone interested in spending that much money with the 'powers that be' forcasting doom and gloom.

GJ - The Church Growth wolves want missionaries so they can travel all over the world to supervise them, have global conferences, and feel important. CG gurus do not like synodical schools at all. Schools are trending downward, to use the management-speak WELS loves to use.