Currently MLHS has a student enrollment of 224 students. We will be graduating 54 Seniors in May. Enrollment projections from this past July for the 2023-2024 school year at a 65% reception rate of 8th graders from 10 of our Lakeshore Lutheran grade schools alone, was tracking approximately 61 incoming freshman. To date we are so excited to share that we have 77 incoming freshman registered! In addition, our international student program currently has 15 students coming next year, and we could have more if we could provide housing for more. We have also seen more interest from families that have their kids enrolled in public schools. TO GOD BE THE GLORY! A reception rate of 65%, which we feel is conservative, over the next 5 years shows steady increase. When considering our Lakeshore Lutheran grade schools they too are seeing an increase in enrollment!

At this time, we are looking to provide our current and future students with a facility that allows us to effectively carry out the ministry and grow our student body. The Building Our Future on Christ Campaign will be designed for today’s needs as well as our future needs. The Building Our Future On Christ Campaign was started in 2019 with the idea of building a gym, worship area, weight room, and renovation of certain areas of the school with building security as the focus. The price tag on this project increased significantly to the point where we had to take a step back and reconsider a different way. Back to the drawing board we went in August of 2022. The solution was to build in phases, with the first phase being a gymnasium and locker rooms with a stretch goal of a fitness center as funding becomes available. The gym will be on the east side of the school as you will see in the site plan. The price tag on Phase One (without the stretch goal of the fitness center) is $8.7M.  For future phases, God willing, we are hoping to plan for a fitness center, additional classrooms, a worship center, and a kitchen near our current commons/cafeteria.      

MLHS has been blessed with a lot of support in pledges and donations. To date, $3.8M has come in donations and pledge payments, and there are $1.6M pledge payments to come in! In addition to that, MLHS has accumulated $43,000 in interest. In the early stages of our campaign we were also able to pay off the $540,000 debt from previous campaigns. After campaign expenses, we currently have in the bank $2.8M. Thank you to all of you for your support in prayers and gifts! Please continue to pray for your alma mater, and ask for your consideration in also supporting your high school financially if you are able. More information about the Building Our Future on Christ Campaign can be found at www.mlhslancers.org/campaign, including donation information. Please help Manitowoc Lutheran reach more students and families in the community with the grace and mercy Jesus has to offer by donating to this project. Thank you!

If you follow us on Facebook or Instagram we often have ALUMNI ALERTS. They are fun way for us to stay connected to our alumni and share exciting news about you. If you would like to be featured, or for us to feature a Lancer graduate please message us on either of those two social media sites, and we are happy to share! We are hoping to grow this section each month. For those who do not have social media, those updates can be sent directly to Paul Durkee pdurkee@mlhslancers.org in the Mission Advancement Office.

Planning a Reunion? We are here to help!

Please contact the Mission Advancement Department when when you begin the process; we have many options to take advantage of when planning your reunion:

SAVE THE DATE

Let us do the work and send out a Save the Date notification email. MLHS recommends that you send this out six months prior to the reunion. (A postcard will be mailed to any classmates who do not have an email)

• MLHS can design the save the date announcement/image. All we need from you is the following: (If you have a design in mind we can work with you.)
  • Date of the Reunion
  • Time of Reunion
  • Location of Reunion
  • Any extra information you want on there.
  • If you have an image you would like included you can attach it to your reply.

Please Note: You will receive a list of your classmates and their contact information to verify before we send out the Save the Date. That list will come to your email soon, so watch for that.

INVITATION

Let us do the work and send out your Class Reunion invitation. MLHS recommends that you send this out six to eight weeks in advance of your reunion. The invitation will look similar to the save the date, but will include all of the detail about your reunion that you provide.

PROMOTION OF YOUR REUNION ON MLHS SOCIAL MEDIA

MLHS is happy to help promote your reunion through our social media, website, and upcoming publications. If you form a social media group, we can share a link to that as well!

BOOKLET

Let us put together a Class Reunion Booklet for you to share!

This booklet would contain any updated information that your classmates want to share. Their updates are collected by having them all fill out an online form. A link to that form would be included on the Save the Date email/mailing, or on the invite, whichever you prefer.

MLHS will print them all out for you and have them available for you to share at the class reunion. A digital copy can also be sent to everyone. This is a nice feature especially for those that are not able to make it to the reunion.

TOURS OF YOUR HIGH SCHOOL

A lot has changed since you have graduated, and we would love to share these blessings with you. This is a guided tour with lots of fun facts and maybe even some stories you didn’t know about. These tours tend to bring out memories from your time at MLHS. You might even learn about something you never even knew about!

SPEAKER AT YOUR REUNION

If you would like someone to come to your celebration and give a presentation on MLHS, or be available for a short Question and Answer Session, we can line up someone to do just that!

PHOTOGRAPHER?

Would you like an MLHS representative to come and take some updated class pictures? Don’t worry about finding someone in the building to take the picture! Just let us know and we can provide someone to take a class picture and some candids too! For 1 hour of your reunion we can capture the memories for you!

VIDEO MONTAGE/SLIDESHOW:

If you would like MLHS to put together a short video of your times here at MLHS from photos that we have on file or photos submitted from your classmates, we can do that too! This feature will depend on whether there is enough turned in to make a montage. Some classes have each person’s senior picture on the screen with any updated photo they submit along side of it. Sort of like a “that was then, this is now” type display. Of course, all of this depends on what can be pulled together. On the Save the Date and Invitation, we would include instructions on how classmates could submit their photos or short video clips for the montage.