St. John's School was a
tuition free school for 100 years. Father John
Pichler
founded and
built the first parochial school in 1876. In 1883, he completed a
two-and-a-half story school
and Miss Mary Cass was the first teacher.
The first school was a
sawed chalk-stone school on the site of
the first frame church. That same
year, three sisters from the Benedictine Order from Atchison came to
teach classes in the new building. In 1883,
the
enrollment was up
to 100 and continued to increase each
year. That is
how our school came to be today.
