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1916 – present
Founded: 1916, as the Luther Institute, founded by Fort Wayne's Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod congregations as a two-year business secondary school teaching typing, shorthand, business law and Bible. In February 1935 the Lutheran high school association voted to merge the Institute with Concordia College's high-school department; the synod's convention approved that September, and Lutheran High School opened in the fall of 1935 in the college's Hanser Hall, refitted for 6,000 dollars raised by seven churches.
Course: The college controlled the school's academics from 1935 to 1947 while the association held its finances; state accreditation was sought in 1938. The school got a building of its own at Anthony Boulevard and Maumee Avenue in 1952 and took the name Concordia Lutheran High School in March 1955. It survived the college's closing in 1957: in 1958 it took an option on 23 acres including Zollner Stadium, at North Anthony and the St. Joe River Drive, purchased that land in 1959 with eight more acres, raised 950,000 dollars in pledges, broke ground in March 1963, and moved classes to the present campus in the fall of 1964. A music wing and chapel-auditorium followed in 1973. The Cadets are the system's team.
Fate: Operating — the capstone of the Lutheran parish-school system (second rung), and the city's oldest continuously operating private high school.
Sources:
- Concordia Lutheran High School, school history (Wikipedia, from school records); Alchetron.
- Concordia Theological Quarterly 85 (2021) — the 1935 merger.