Saint Francis School (Lumberton, New Mexico)

Website: www.stfrancislumberton.org

Mailing Address: HC 71 Box 26 Lumberton, New Mexico 87528

Phone Number: 575.759.3252

Principal: Leonard Meyer

Principal’s e-mail: lmeyer@stfrancislumberton.org

St. Francis is a unique and special place of learning located in Lumberton, New Mexico. Our school was founded over 78 years ago by the Franciscan Order to serve the local Jicarilla Apache and Hispanic communities.

The school's location in a beautiful and remote area in the mountains of northern New Mexico, 5 miles from the Colorado border, and 3 miles from the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation, gives its student body a diverse and special quality. Over the years, the school leadership has changed hands from regional Catholic parish to local parents and community members

The school remains private and independent, but with a continued close relationship with the nearby St. Francis and St. Anthony Mission Churches. Our goal is to provide each student a quality education that will prepare them for a fruitful life in partnership with their home, parish, and community. We so this by providing sound academic and spiritual instruction for kindergarten through eighth grades, with an enrollment of about 100 students.

St. Francis School in Lumberton, New Mexico, exist to provide each student an education that will prepare them academically and spiritually to be leaders in their further pursuits. Our students will strive to live as Jesus did, proclaiming the gospel message by word and example. Their will be faith tradition of the Catholic Church, guided by the Holy Spirit.