St. Wenceslaus School PreK-6th Grade School
St. Wenceslaus School has been an active part of the Wahoo community since 1910. When the school began, it was staffed by the Benedictine Sisters for 13 years. Grades one through ten attended the school at this time. The Notre Dame Sisters in 1923 agreed to teach at St. Wenceslaus and they have stayed on to this present date. The first lay teacher came in 1956 and the first Marian sisters came in 1967. The first lay principal was employed in 1973.
St. Wenceslaus school remained a K-8 facility from 1964 to 1989. Grades one through five were self-contained with a student-teacher ratio of 16 to 1. Grades 6-8 were considered the Jr. High and they were departmentalized and had a student-teacher ratio of 15-1. The enrollment steadily increased throughout each year. This increase of student enrollment was the catalyst for a new school building to be built in 1989. This year the school housed K-6 and the 7th and 8th grade went down to Bishop Neumann. Further increase in enrollment saw an extra addition built on in 1995. In 1997 a preschool program began at St. Wenceslaus.
St. Wenceslaus’s enrollment continues to grow. The enrollment had gone from 109 students in 1923 to the peak year, 1963, with 298 students. St. Wenceslaus was a K-12 system at this time. St. Wenceslaus remained a K-12 school until 1964 when Neumann High School opened its doors to grades 9-12 .St. Wenceslaus then became a K-8 facility.
St. John Neumann Jr./Sr. High School
Bishop Neumann Jr/Sr Catholic High School is a Catholic diocesan co-educational school serving students of ten parishes in the surrounding areas of Saunders and Lancaster Counties. The ten parishes are part of the Wahoo Deanery.
