Trinity Lutheran School (Orlando, Florida)
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Trinity Lutheran School is a private Lutheran school in Orlando
Orlando, Florida
Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States...

, Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

. The school has served the church and community in downtown Orlando since 1953. Trinity Lutheran School is a fully accredited school as recognized by the National Lutheran School Accreditation of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod.

Trinity prepares students in Pre-K (for those who are 4 years old by September 1) through eighth grade to be successful in high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....

 and beyond. The Trinity Child Development Center serves children 6 weeks old through four years old.

Curriculum

The school has an accelerated reader
Accelerated Reader
Accelerated Reader is a daily progress monitoring software assessment in wide use by primary and secondary schools for monitoring the practice of reading. It was created by Renaissance Learning, Inc...

 program that tests students' reading comprehension.

The school library is open to students before, during, after school hours.

Athletics

Trinity Lutheran School offers many different types of sports programs, including basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, soccer, volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

, golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

, and track
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

. The school has an indoor gymnasium with a regulation-sized basketball court with bleachers. The school has a soccer field and a playground. The school participates in sports tournaments, both home and away, throughout the school year.

Music

Students can participate in a number of extracurricular activities, including band, hand bells, and chorus. The school hosts several musical performances throughout the year.

Special events

The school library hosts the Scholastic Book Fair once a year.

The school sponsors yearly field trip
Field trip
A field trip or excursion, known as school trip in the UK and school tour in Ireland, is a journey by a group of people to a place away from their normal environment...

s for the 7th and 8th grade classes. Destinations have included Washington, DC and Colonial Williamsburg
Colonial Williamsburg
Colonial Williamsburg is the private foundation representing the historic district of the city of Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. The district includes buildings dating from 1699 to 1780 which made colonial Virginia's capital. The capital straddled the boundary of the original shires of Virginia —...

.

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