History
Around the start of the 20th century Jules Vroon, just a two year old boy, emigrated from Dinteloord, Holland to the United States to grow up in Michigan's Christian schools where all subjects were taught from a Christian perspective. During the Depression, Vroon, then a husband and father, moved his company to Florida. When he found no Christian schools like those he knew as a boy, he shared his vision to bring Christian education to south Florida with friends at Shenandoah Presbyterian Church. Westminster Christian School opened in 1961 with four teachers and twelve students.
The school was formerly located in the census-designated place of Cutler until the incorporation of Palmetto Bay on September 10, 2002.
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