Oak Grove Lutheran School is a private, Lutheran school for students in pre-Kindergarten through grade 12 in Fargo, North Dakota founded in 1906. The mission of Oak Grove Lutheran School is to express God’s love by nurturing students for academic achievement, lifelong Christian commitment and loving service throughout the world. Oak Grove began as a one shack school house that housed mostly Norwegian school girls. The shacks that housed students were closed in 2001. Students who originally hailed from outside the state or out of country may now live with multicultural families.
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