Good Shepherd Lutheran School history

Good Shepherd Church reached its largest size in 1967, with a roster of 1,900 members.

The south wing of the old Parish Hall had actually weathered a minor fire to a few roof shingles in 1969, when embers flew over from a garage fire on Walnut Street.

The Parish Hall was sold to another church in Inglewood and was moved in 1970; the rest of the buildings were torn down.

Uffelman was both the first and longest-serving principal of Good Shepherd School, working as the administrator for 41 years until he reached retirement age in 1977.

An auditorium/gymnasium attached to the ERA Building opened in September 1981, the construction of which had been 11 years in the making.

The principal's position became vacant in 1982.

In response to parental wishes, as they believed they were spending too much money for clothes, the school switched to uniforms in 1989.

Reinertson stepped down again in 1990 on account of the long commute from his home in Anaheim, California.

The school reorganized in September 1994 as a substantially smaller institution.

Peggye Holmes became the principal of the school for the first time in 1996, having previously served as administrator of the now defunct Faith Lutheran School and Church along Broadway in central Los Angeles.

Harry Cypher (/ˈsiːfər/ SEE-fər) was elected and called to be principal of the school in 1998, as he had a longer experience in school administration per se.

Cypher accepted a call to be principal of Faith Lutheran School of Whittier, California in 2001; and . Holmes returned for a second stint as Good Shepherd School's principal.

Simultaneously with this development, in November 2002, Century Housing, Culver City, California, offered to pay rent to the church expressing an interest in using the ERA Building facility for a public charter school.

The possibility of continuing Good Shepherd School as an institution for elementary grades only was rejected; and the church government elected in January 2003 to close the school at the end of the academic year five months later, and rent the ERA Building to Century Housing.