Valley Christian School’s enrollment has risen over the past decade, so the private school is building a new high school to account for the growth.
- Valley Christian is a private Christian school with campuses in Neenah and Oshkosh.
- VCS has seen enrollment grow from about 275 students to 775 students over 11 years.
- The new high school will be built on the field near Vinland Street and Fernau Avenue. The first phase will cost $14.5 million, paid for through community fundraising.
When the bell rings at VCS, the hallways quickly fill up.
“We all run into each other in the hallway,” Merian Getz, a junior at VCS, says. “It’s like one hallway here and one hallway over there, so everyone is pretty crammed.”
Getz has been at VCS her entire school career. She says her kindergarten class had fewer than 20 students, but VCS leadership says today’s kindergarten class has 70 kids…