St. Paul’s Lutheran School of Pacific Beach

My son went to Jr. K and now attends kindergarten at St. Paul’s. The staff is so friendly, nurturing, and professional. We love this school, the church, and the community. With affordable tuition, a great location, sensible hours, and wonderful people, this is the best place to send your kids to school.

This is a fantastic school! We have both our kids there and we cannot say enough great things about the school and staff. The teachers have been tremendous and have been very effective in helping all the student progress. It is nice that there is an affordable K-​8 private school option that is focused solely on the kids. Having our kids only have to attend one school prior to high school is priceless! There are too many transitions between schools in the public school district. Parents are respected and welcomed to participate. St. Paul’s is the best school for our kids!

My two children have attended the St. Paul’s preschool for a year now — and its just a wonderful place! Caring, well-​trained staff, nice-​sized classrooms with loads of activities/​toys that they rotate, and a good structured schedule. Preschool is play-​based with rotating themes every week or two — space, dinosaurs, bugs, pirates, etc. My kids started at 2 ½ and have learned a ton! The child to teacher/​assistant ratio isn’t the lowest I found when I was looking to place my kids, but the teachers are all very competent, the children are well supervised and attended to. Mrs. Johnson was our teacher and she was just fantastic with the little ones. I wish I could emulate her calm and patience :) Her art activities and in-​class cardboard play structures (submarine, castle, pirate ship, rocketship — just to name a few) are just amazing and the kids love to play in them. This is a Lutheran school and they teach bible stories and Christian values. I’m from a Christian background but agnostic — I’ve found the school provides an excellent balance of exposing the kids to the Christian faith without ‘overdoing’ it. Lastly — I’ve been very impressed with the behavior of the older kids at the school — generally very polite, helpful, and considerate. I think it speaks well for the overall school environment. Overall we’ve been very happy here and we highly recommend this school!

I can’t even begin to say how awesome St. Paul’s is. Our daughter attended both a year of Preschool and Jr K here and blossomed academically, socially and spiritually. Our daughter deals with anxiety, sometimes very intense, and the teachers and staff knew exactly how to work with her. We were amazed in her growth and saw her excel with each school day. She is now a leader and more than ready for Kindergarten and for that we thank the loving and well trained staff at St. Paul’s school.
St. Paul’s is filled with staff, students and family who are there to support each other. It’s a special place and you can feel the sense of community.