Salem Lutheran School
Tomball, Texas
"Confident Learners. Equipped Leaders."
Salem Lutheran School has been teaching kids in Tomball since 1853. It's the oldest continually operating parochial school in Texas, with 380+ students from infants through 8th grade and LSAC accreditation. It's also a ministry of Salem Lutheran Church, whose website we built too. When the school needed its own site, they already knew who to call.
Location
Tomball, Texas
Affiliation
Lutheran
Grades
Infants through 8th Grade
Website Type
Non-Profit Design & Build
A 170-year-old school with a brand-new front door.
Salem doesn't need to convince anyone they're established. The site's job is to make a school founded in 1853 feel effortless to join in 2026: schedule a visit, apply, and land in the parent portal without a single phone call.
“Schedule Your Visit” Funnel
The primary CTA lives in the header of every page and drives to one clean booking path. For a school, a campus visit is the sale. The site treats it that way.
Four-Step Admissions Process
Schedule a visit, complete the application, shadow day with benchmark testing, decision. Each step illustrated with real photos so families always know where they are in the journey.
FACTS Parent Portal Integration
Enrolled families log into FACTS for accounts, records, and volunteer-hour tracking, straight from the site. The website handles the front of house, the portal handles the back office, and nothing falls between them.
Current Families Hub
Calendars, handbooks, summer reading lists, medical forms, uniform and supply guides, all in one place. 380+ students means hundreds of parents who need answers without calling the front office.
Preschool Through 8th Grade Pages
The early-childhood program gets its own home built on a whole-child philosophy, and Kinder through 8th covers academics, weekly chapel, band, choir, and interscholastic athletics for grades 5 to 8.
Tuition & Financial Aid Clarity
Published fee schedules, financial aid guidance, and information on Texas tax-credit scholarship funds. Cost is the first question every family Googles, and Salem answers it instead of hiding it.
Heritage brand, zero dust.
A school founded before the Civil War could easily look like a museum online. Salem's site wears its 170 years lightly: classic type, warm photography of kids actually playing, and modern conversion paths underneath.
Photography-first hero
Full-screen rotating slides of real students on the playground and in class
Classic serif brand
Serif display type with a navy-and-brown palette that nods to heritage without feeling old
Family-first navigation
Admissions, Preschool, Kinder – 8th Grade, Current Families, Events, front and center
Mobile responsive
Every page built for phones first, desktops second
WordPress CMS
School staff manage events, calendars, and family resources independently
Your school deserves a website that works this hard.
We built Salem's church site, then their school site. That's what happens when the work holds up. The first call is free, and you'll leave it knowing exactly what your school or ministry needs.
