Good Shepherd Lutheran School

Meet the teacher at Good Shepherd. We are incredibly excited and so honored to serve our families this school year. Now serving preschool through 8th grade.

ATTENTION LION FOOTBALL FAMILIES
Please note an updated date for Try outs.
Event: Lion Football
New Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2026
New Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Hunter's Crossing

📚✏️ Meet the Teacher is Almost Here! 🍎🎉

Join us on Monday, August 10th for Meet the Teacher at both our Elementary and Middle School campuses!

This is a wonderful opportunity to:
🍎 Meet your teachers
🏫 Visit your classroom

😊 Reconnect with friends and get excited for the new school year!

We can’t wait to welcome our students and families back for another incredible year at Good Shepherd Lutheran School. Here’s to a year filled with learning, faith, friendship, and growth!

Music week at camp!

Vote for our preschool! ❤️

🎉 We’re officially nominated for Best of Bastrop 2026! 🎉

We’d be so thankful if you’d take a moment to vote for Little Sheep Learning Center! 🐑💜

Every vote counts, and we couldn’t do this without our incredible families and community. Thank you for supporting us! 💛

Science & Reasoning

Spring 2025 Iowa Assessments™ Data

Our students continue to excel in scientific thinking and inquiry, outperforming national averages across multiple science domains.

Highlights:

✓ Life Science: +20 percentage points

✓ Physical Science: +24 percentage points

✓ Conceptual Science Understanding: +20 percentage points

✓ Information Evaluation: +22 percentage points

These results demonstrate that our students are learning to ask thoughtful questions, analyze evidence, and apply scientific reasoning to understand the world around them.

"Cultivating curiosity, discovery, and a deeper understanding of God's creation."

🚨STRONG MATHEMATICAL THINKING 🚨 Our students demonstrated exceptional mathematical understanding by outperforming national averages in several foundational and higher-order mathematical domains. (Data based on Spring 2025 ITBS achievement testing)

✓ Number Sense & Operations: +20 percentage points

✓ Algebraic Patterns & Connections: +17 percentage points

✓ Conceptual Understanding: +16 percentage points

✓ Geometry: +8 percentage points

These results reflect a mathematics program that emphasizes conceptual understanding, critical thinking, and real-world problem solving, not simply memorizing procedures.

"Developing confident problem solvers equipped for tomorrow's challenges."