At Our Lady of the Prairie, we are proud of the excellent education our students receive thanks to our smaller class sizes, multiage environment and dedicated teachers.
OLP staff reaches the whole child, and our test results prove what a difference an OLP education can make.
Students receive enrichment in: Faith instruction daily, Spanish, physical education, art, music, technology, band, and service.
1st child- $3,150
2nd child- $2,950
3rd or more children $2,750
Admissions Director
Carolyn Gleason
School Notes
Our Lady of the Prairie Catholic School is dedicated to the
spiritual, intellectual, moral, phyical, and academic formation of
children. Our school follows the principles of the Roman
Catholic faith in a nurturing, multiage environment where all
students thrive in the Light of Christ.
Our Lady of the Prairie parish school has celebrated 127 years
of education in the Belle Plaine Community. Records indicate that
there were a couple of log structure churches in the early days of
Belle Plaine. One Catholic church building, which existed in 1861,
served 40 German families and 72 Irish families. In 1868, a vote
for separation between the German members and the Irish members
took place. Reportedly, the Germans wanted Mass in the German
language. The German church was built in 1871 and named Sts. Peter
and Paul. The early settlers built a parish school in 1878 in
conjunction with the German church. Franciscan Sisters, many from
Germany, taught in Belle Plaine for nine years. In 1888 a lay
teacher from Chicago took over care for the school. There is little
information about Sacred Heart church (the Irish church). Beside
the mention of the formation of two parishes in 1868, there is one
notation in the Historical Society's publication on the History of
Belle Plaine that the Archbiship ordered that Sacred Heart and Sts.
Peter and Paul parishes be consolidated in 1972 due to a shortage
of priests. The consolidated community took the name: Our Lady of
the Prairie.
