Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal School

Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal School is a coed, independent school for students age 2 through 8th grade.

History

Located in Midtown's Central Gardens, Grace-St. Luke's (or GSL) was founded in 1947 when though the school's early origins date back to 1919, when Bartow B. Ramage, then rector of St. Luke's Church, first Memphis educator Mrs. S. Griffin Walker, who had taught kindergarten at St. Mary's School, asked Grace-St. Luke's rector Rev. Charles Stuart Hale, for space to open a kindergarten. He agreed, and thus began a kindergarten in the basement of the parish house. By 1959, they had built it into a Kindergarten through 6th grade school, and broke ground for a new day school building on Nov. 30, 1959.[1]

After being issued a charter, Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal School began to grow, eventually becoming a K–12 school by the mid-1970s. In 1947, it closed the high school program to focus on a kindergarten through middle school structure to better focus on educational and leadership opportunities for Lower and Middle School students. GSL acquired additional properties (Snowden Field in 1984 and Miss Lee's Preschool in 1987). In the early 1990s, Grace-St. Luke's opened the Evans Building that links the church and school administrative offices to the Middle School and gymnasium.

In 2010, the school completed its first major new construction in 20 years, opening the Anchor Center, a multipurpose building designed to ensure the school’s sustainability and allow capacity for future growth.[2]

Today, Grace-St. Luke’s School serves more than 500 students from age 2 through eighth grade.[3]

References
  1. Viser, Barbara M. (1990). Grace-St. Luke’s, The First Fifty Years. Published by Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. Library of Congress Catalog Number 90-083968
  2. Commercial Appeal, Tuesday, April 13, 2010, B1: "Oh My Gosh: New 43,000 Square-Foot Addition Wows Students"
  3. Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal School website
  • "Private School, Memphis, TN | PK-8 Coed School | Private Coed School, LL-8 Memphis TN | Independent School in Memphis Tennessee". gslschool.org. Retrieved 2014-04-24.
  • "Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal Church - Midtown Memphis". gracestlukes.org. Retrieved 2014-04-24.

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