Lakeside School (Seattle)
| Lakeside School | |
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| Location | |
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| , United States | |
| Information | |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1914 |
| Locale | Suburban |
| Headmaster | Bernie Noe |
| Faculty | 91 |
| Grades | 5-12 |
| Number of students | 776 |
| Color(s) | Maroon, Gold |
| Mascot | Lion |
| Endowment | $163 million[1] |
| Religious Affiliation | None |
| Website | www.lakesideschool.org |
The Lakeside School is a private school located in the Haller Lake neighborhood at the north city limits of Seattle, Washington, USA, for grades 5–12.
Lakeside regularly sends approximately 100% of its graduating class to college.[1] 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.
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.[2]
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. This list grew to include Senegal as an option for the 2009 summer trips. 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 every summer since 2007.[3]
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. Since 1984, the schools have been sister schools.
Student Clubs and Programs
Lakeside has many different student clubs and programs including:[4]
- AcaFellas
- Amnesty International
- BSU (Black Student Union)
- Chess Team
- Diacritical Political
- GLOW (Gay, Lesbian, or Whatever)
- Imago
- Information Technology Assistants
- Knowledge Bowl
- LAPS (Lakeside Asian Pacific Students)
- Lakeside Outside
- Lakeside Sentinel
- MIXED (Multicultural Initiators eXperiencing and Encouraging Diversity)
- Philosophy
- Science Olympiad
- Student Government
- Student Newspaper: "Tatler"
- Youth in Government
Facts and figures
Facts and figures (as of September 2010):[1]
- Enrollment: 776 (399 boys, 377 girls)
- Faculty: 111 (50 men, 61 women)
- Faculty with advanced degrees: 79%
- Student/Teacher Ratio: 9:1
- Average Class Size: 16
- Faculty of color: 20.5%
- Students of Color: 45%
- Percentage of College-Bound Graduates: 100%
- Tuition: $25,250 [5]
- Library Volumes: 37,500
- Laptops required: grades 7-12
- Endowment: approx. $163,000,000
- Percentage of students under the financial aid program: 30%
- National Merit semifinalists: 25
- National Merit commended: 42
- National Achievement Scholar Award winners: 8
- National Hispanic Recognition Award winners: 2
- 63% of senior class recognized
- 330 total tests taken
- 28 different subject areas (out of 37 possible subjects)
- 85% got a four or better (out of five)[1]
Lakeside plays in AAA classification for most sports. Teams have earned 133 league titles and 70 championships.[1]
Notable alumni
- Wilber B. Huston '29, winner of the 1929 Edison scholarship contest and NASA mission director
- Charles Pigott '47, Chairman and CEO of PACCAR 1967-1996 [6]
- Booth Gardner '54, Governor of Washington 1985-1993, ambassador to GATT
- Craig McCaw '68, cellular phone pioneer
- Paul Allen '71, co-founder of Microsoft, owner of the Seattle Seahawks
- Bill Gates '73, co-founder of Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Jabe Blumenthal '78, designer of Microsoft Excel[7][8]
- Ned Skinner, '38, an original owner of the Space Needle and Seattle Seahawks
- Adam West, TV's Batman, voice of Mayor Adam West on Family Guy
- Po Bronson, author
- Annie Leonard, activist, filmmaker
- Freddie Wong '04, Guitar Hero 2 World Series Winner
- Tor Seidler, author of "A Rat's Tale", "Mean Margaret" and "Gully's Travels"[9]
- Ben Bishop, winner of $115,800 over five days of competition on Jeopardy!, the most of any contestant in 2008 [10]
- Howard Phillips (Nintendo), Various game designer positions at Nintendo, Lucasfilm, and Microsoft
- E Lockhart, author
References
- ^ a b c d e "Lakeside at a Glance". Lakeside School. Retrieved 2010-09-25.
- ^ http://www.lakesideschool.org/podium/default.aspx?t=122170
- ^ http://www.lakesideschool.org/podium/default.aspx?t=122233
- ^ "Student Clubs". Lakeside School. Retrieved 2010-09-25.
- ^ Tuition and Financial Aid
- ^ http://www.fulcrumfoundation.org/page.php?id=14&news_id=6
- ^ "High-tech investment helps wildlife". USA Today. 2001-01-24. Retrieved 2010-05-07.
- ^ http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19950815&slug=2136534.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/16/reviews/971116.16dunleat.html.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Gaudette, Karen (2008-12-09). "Local "Jeopardy!" winner heads to Tournament of Champions". The Seattle Times.