"The Small Church and School with a Big Heart…
Come feel the difference!"
Informational Video-Condensed Version
Hephatha Lutheran School is a private Christian school that was established in 1983 with a vision to minister and educate the young people in a new, booming community. Through the years, the school has grown and become an environment that the faculty members, church members, and attending families feel blessed to call home.
Hephatha day school is K-8th grade. The Preschool and the grade school has approximately 200 students each. Hephatha offers an enriched curriculum with music, band, computers, library, electives, homework club, Spanish (K-8), chess club, art club, Artmasters, cheerleading, drill team, theatre, and after school sports for grades 5-8.
Over the past 4 years, 78% of Hephatha’s graduates attended Lutheran High School of Orange County, with one of our graduating students from each year scoring into the Top 5 out of over 500 applicants on Lutheran High's entrance exams. After high school our graduates have attended various places for higher education such as: Concordia, Notre Dame, Princeton, Chapman, USC, UCLA, and many others.
Information received from graduates and their families is that students that attend Hephatha for their elementary and or junior high years are well prepared for high school and higher education. This is consistent with Hephatha’s school philosophy and our expected school wide learning results.
Hephatha Lutheran School is fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and National Lutheran School Accreditation. The Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) awarded Hephatha Lutheran School a full 6-year accreditation.
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Hephatha Lutheran School is led by our Principal, K.J. Voelker. To contact her or the school office please call 714 637-0887 ext 101 or email her at kjvoelker@sbcglobal.net. Other phone extensions and e-mail addresses are available in the Staff Directory. |
SCHOOL’S MISSION STATEMENT:
The mission of Hephatha Lutheran School is, by the grace of God, to build up the family of Christ, to grow in faith, to assist families in discipling their children in a Christian Community, and to provide an enriched educational experience wherein all will find identity, purpose, and power for their lives in Christ by living in grace and in the knowledge of Him as their personal Lord and Savior.
School Hours:
Kindergarten: 8:30 a.m. - 2:45 p.m. Grades 1-8: 8:20 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
School Office: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Students may arrive on campus as early as 7:00 a.m. and report to SAC (School Age Care). Students arriving on campus after 8:00 a.m. will wait at the lunch tables under supervision until their teacher takes them to the classroom at 8:15 a.m. The kindergartner's day starts at 8:30 a.m. Kindergartener's can be dropped off before class begins in the school playground, where they will be supervised until taken to class at 8:30a.m. At the end of the day, Kindergarteners are dismissed at 2:45p.m. and the rest of the school at 3:00 p.m. SAC is available until 6:00 p.m. for those students who are not picked up after school by 3:15 p.m..
The school year begins in Aug. and ends in June. (Please see the calendar for complete details.)
Before and After School Care:
SAC: 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. and 2:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Additional Information is available on the: SAC page