MARSHALL — Next school year, Marshall will be home to not just one, but two high schools.

True Light Christian School has announced that it will add high school grade levels beginning this fall. Informational meetings are being held at the school, including a meeting on Monday night.

“People can learn about our (educational) model,” and the vision for what high school at True Light will look like, said Principal Zach Schubert.

True Light has already held two informational meetings, and is planning at least two more, Schubert said. One will be held at 7 p.m. Monday at the Grace Life Fellowship Center. An upcoming meeting is also planned at 7 p.m. on April 29.

Schubert said expanding True Light to include high school students is something that a number of people had reached out to the school about. The True Light School Board voted to move forward with adding high school grades this fall, but meetings to plan out how it would work had been going on for more than a year, he said.

Marshall has had a private high school in the past, Schubert said.

“When we were Marshall Area Christian School, we did have a high school going for about five or six years in the 1990s,” he said.

True Light plans to start slowly with adding high school education. Schubert said this fall True Light will have just grades 9 and 10, and a small number of students to start out with.

“We didn’t want to overwhelm our model,” he said. The plan is for one grade level to be added each of the following two school years, bringing True Light up to a full grade 9-12 high school.

Tuition at the new high school would be $7,500 per student, Schubert said.

Space at the current Grace Life fellowship center will be used for a learning commons for high school students, Schubert said. The space would offer plenty of natural light and be set up for flexible learning. The school plans to offer a hybrid model for learning, with both in-person teachers and a learning coach, as well as online courses, he said.

True Light would partner with NorthStar Academy, an online Christian high school, to be able to offer a bigger variety of classes and electives for students, Schubert said.

“It’s going to be a Christ-centered education,” Schubert said of True Light’s high school curriculum. However, he said True Light is not a school affiliated with just one church. Although they both use space at the former East Side Elementary building in Marshall, True Light Christian School is separate from Grace Life Church. Students from about 16 different area churches attend the school, Schubert said.

Schubert said True Light also plans to offer some opportunities for high school sports through the Christian Athletic League, which includes schools around Minnesota. The league offers boys’ and girls’ basketball, girls’ volleyball, and co-ed soccer, he said.

The Christian Athletic League’s website lists both Community Christian School in Willmar and Immanuel Lutheran School in Mankato among its members.