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Lakeside School
Location
Map
Seattle
,
Washington

United States
Information
TypePrivate
Established1914
LocaleSuburban
HeadmasterBernie Noe
Faculty91
Grades5-12
Number of students776
Color(s)Maroon, Gold
MascotLion
Endowment$154 million[1]
Religious AffiliationNone
Websitewww.lakesideschool.org

The Lakeside School is a private school in Seattle, Washington, USA, for grades 5–12.

Lakeside regularly sends approximately 25% of its graduating class to Ivy League schools, and 99% to college.[2] Its most famous alumni are Bill Gates and Paul Allen, founders of Microsoft, who got their start programming tic-tac-toe on a time-shared computer provided by the Lakeside Mothers' Association and the Lakeside Mathematics Department. Other famous alumni include the McCaw brothers, who built a family business into the McCaw Cellular telephone empire which they eventually sold to AT&T Wireless; actor Adam West; bestselling author Po Bronson; and former Washington State Governor Booth Gardner. In addition, many of the school's teachers are alumni. The school is labeled as Seattle's best college-prep school.

History

It was founded in 1914 by Frank Moran as the Moran School on Bainbridge Island. In 1919, it moved to the waterfront Denny-Blaine neighborhood of Seattle and became the Moran-Lakeside School. In 1923 it moved to the present site of The Bush School in Washington Park and changed its name to the Lakeside Day School for Younger Boys soon thereafter. A few years later, Lakeside moved to its present location. It became coeducational upon merger with St. Nicholas, a Capitol Hill girls' school, in 1971. The current campus is notable among West Coast schools for its East Coast feel, with its sprawling grassy areas, broadleaf trees, and classic brick buildings.


Global Service Learning

Established in the summer of 2005, the school's Global Service Learning Program aims at helping students gain a broader view of the world while helping the underprivileged around the world. In 2005, students visited India, Peru, and China; in the summer of 2006 students travelled to Peru, China, Morocco, and the Dominican Republic. In the summer of 2007, 86 Upper School students traveled to Peru, China, Morocco, India, and the Dominican Republic. The Middle School opened its first Global Service Learning Program for seventh graders with trips to the Makah Indian Reservation on Neah Bay in the summer of 2006, and has sent an eighth grade trip to Costa Rica in the summer of 2007.

The Global Service Learning Program is one piece of a broad change in curriculum and administrative policies aimed at increasing diversity . The school has focused on, in recent years, its role as an elite prep school and its desire for diverse viewpoints and backgrounds of its curriculum, faculty, and students.

Lakeside students have the opportunity to study abroad during their junior year of high school through schools called School Year Abroad, the Mountain School, the Rocky Mountain Semester, the Maine Coast Semester, and CityTerm. Students may apply in the winter of their sophomore year to spend part of their junior year at one of these schools.

Lakeside has a long tradition in engaging students in global affairs. In 1984, Lakeside students competed against students at Moscow School #20 in a chess match relayed by Telex. The event was one of the first of its kind. A yearly exchange program with Moscow School #20 was begun in 1986, the first such regular American-Soviet school exchange in the country.

Clubs

Lakeside has many different clubs including:

  • Acafellas
  • Amnesty International
  • Badminton
  • BSU
  • Chess Team
  • Club Israel
  • Dodgeball Club
  • Eathcorps
  • Fencing
  • Flag Football
  • Frisbee
  • Gaming Club
  • Global Issues Network
  • GLOW
  • Hip-Hop Congress
  • Imago
  • Knowledge Bowl
  • LAPS
  • LAWSPT (Physics)
  • Lion Pride
  • Mac Tech Support Club
  • Meditation Club
  • MercyCorps
  • MIXED
  • Nothing But Treble
  • Orienteering Club
  • Peer to Peer
  • Rock Climbing
  • SportsBoosters
  • Student Awareness Council
  • Students for a Free Tibet
  • Students of All Viewpoints for an Imparial Education (SAVIE)
  • Table Tennis
  • What is Philosophy?
  • Writing Club
  • Writers Guild
  • YIG

Facts and figures

Facts and figures (as of March 2008):

  • Enrollment: 774 (386 boys, 390 girls)
  • Faculty: 112 (52 men, 60 women)
  • Faculty with advanced degrees: 76%
  • Student/Teacher Ratio: 9:1
  • Average Class Size: 16
  • Percentage of College-Bound Graduates: 99%
  • Tuition: Grades 5-8: $21,840+; Grades 9-12: $22,160+
  • Laptops required: grades 7-12
  • Endowment: approx. $154,000,000
  • Library Volumes: 37,500
  • Percentage of Senior Class with National Merit Recognition: 57%
  • Percentage of students under the financial aid program: 23%

Notable alumni

References

  1. ^ http://www.lakesideschool.org/body/abtlakeside/ataglance.shtml
  2. ^ Lakeside School at a Glance. Retrieved April 10, 2007.
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