Lakeside High School (DeKalb County, Georgia)

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Lakeside High School
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Lakeside High School (DeKalb County, Georgia)
3801 Briarcliff Road NE

Atlanta
,
Georgia

United States
Coordinates 33°50′43″N84°17′05″W / 33.845316°N 84.284838°W / 33.845316; -84.284838
Information
Type Public
Established1964
School district DeKalb County School System
Teaching staff123.50 (FTE) [1]
Grades9–12
Enrollment2,141 (2022-23) [1]
Student to teacher ratio17.34 [1]
CampusSuburban
Color(s)   Purple and gold
Mascot Vikings
Rival Tucker High School
NewspaperThe Lakeside Legend
YearbookValhalla
Website lakesidehs.dekalb.k12.ga.us

Lakeside High School is a public high school in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The school is a part of the DeKalb County School District.

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Lakeside is a public school encompassing grades 9-12. The school serves students from the North Druid Hills and Northlake area of DeKalb County.

Lakeside High School opened its doors in 1964. It completed a $23 million renovation and addition in the summer of 2012, adding a new classroom wing and a performing arts building.

In Newsweek magazine's 2005 list of the best 1,200 public high schools in the nation, Lakeside ranked at 107, the highest in Georgia. In the 2006 edition of the list, which is based on the number of AP and IB tests taken as compared to the number of graduating seniors, Lakeside ranked 135, just below Riverwood High School in nearby Sandy Springs, which ranked 132.

Demographics

The student body is composed of 46% White, 22% Hispanic, 32% Black, 7.4% Asian, and 14% other racial groups. These numbers include 9.2% students with disabilities, 36% economically disadvantaged, and 5.5% English language learners. [2]

Attendance boundary

The zoning boundary includes: [3]

Feeder schools

The following elementary schools feed into Lakeside: [6]

Henderson Middle School is Lakeside's feeder middle school. A small minority of the students come from private schools, including Cliff Valley, Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic School and Intown Community School.

Staff

The school has a professional staff of 170, including 120 teaching faculty, seven administrators, and seven counselors. As of 2020, Dr. Susan Stoddard has served as the principal of Lakeside. [7]

Curriculum

In addition to a range of extracurricular activities, a curriculum is offered from a standardized system-wide program of studies. A high percentage of students take advanced and gifted classes.

22 Advanced Placement courses are offered in English Literature, Composition, Calculus AB and BC, Statistics, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Physics, Microeconomics, World History, Psychology, American History, American Government, Computer Science, French Language, Spanish Language, Music Theory, Studio Art Drawing, 2-D and 3-D, and Art History. Advanced or accelerated courses, and courses for the gifted, are offered in English, math, science, French, Spanish, and social science. Lakeside administered 1164 AP exams during the 2011–2012 school year. [2]

Local colleges and universities coordinate joint enrollment programs with Lakeside to serve students who wish to pursue college courses while still in high school.

Sports and extracurricular activities

As of the 2021–22 season.
TypeCompetitionState TitlesSeason(s)Sources
Boys SportsBaseball0
Basketball0
Cross Country51969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1975
Football31970, 1972, 1991 [8]
Golf0
Ice Hockey0
Lacrosse0
Soccer71970, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1981, 1997, 2008
Swimming0
Wrestling11997
Tennis41980, 1981, 1982, 2001
Track & Field21970, 1974
Girls SportsBasketball0
Cheerleading0
Cross Country0
Golf0
Lacrosse0
Soccer0
Softball0
Swimming61969, 1970, 1971, 1977, 1978, 1981
Tennis11984
Track & Field0
Volleyball0

Key:

  School Boys' Record
  School Girls' Record

For the 2016–17 season, Lakeside High School competed in GHSA Region 7-AAAAAAA.

Lakeside's achievements include:

Football

The Vikings won state championships in 1970, 1972, and 1991. The team plays at Adams Memorial Stadium and Avondale Stadium.

Newspaper

The Lakeside Legend was voted "Superior" by GSPA. The newspaper is offered as a fourth period class.

Baseball

28 players from Lakeside's last ten graduating classes[ when? ] have gone on to play college or professional baseball. [9]

Band

The band has performed and won awards in competitions in Chicago, Washington D.C., Myrtle Beach, Orlando, and Hawaii. The Marching Band routinely competes in marching competitions. The band also contains an active jazz band, winter drumline, color guard, and winter guard, which competes in the Southern Association of Performance Arts (SAPA) and won first place in class SrA (2011), and second place in IrA (2012). The band sends four separate groups to the Georgia District IV Large Group Performance Evaluations each year, and currently has the highest number of students from the county in the All-State Band (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) and the most students in the Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony from any one school (2010, 2011, 2014), in addition to having the largest band enrollment in DeKalb County School District.

The Jazz Band, in past years, hosted an annual swing dance, presented by the Atlanta Swing Era Dance Association, with swing dance lessons taught by Down South Swing.

Theatre

Lakeside's theatre department has been flourishing for many years, especially after the addition of the new Fine Arts Building. The school produces several shows each year, including a Spring musical. In the 2016–2017 school year, their production of Hairspray sold out five shows. [10] The program has won several awards. The Importance of Being Earnest (2014) and The Miss Firecracker Contest (2015) placed first at the regional level in the Georgia High School Association One-act competition, with The Importance of Being Earnest (2014) winning third place in the state competition. Several cast members have also received honors at regional and state levels. In the fall of 2017, the Lakeside Theatre Company performed a one-act version of Philip Dawkins' play Failure: A Love Story at the Georgia Theatre Conference (GTC). It was named Best Show, and went on to compete at the South Eastern Theatre Conference (SETC) in March 2018. The show placed 2nd overall and several cast members received individual awards. The Lakeside Theatre Company has received several honorable mentions at the Georgia High School Theatre Awards. Their first nomination was in 2018, and their first win in 2020 for the choreography of "Mary Poppins." [11]

Notable alumni

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Lakeside High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved July 30, 2024.
  2. 1 2 Consolidated School Improvement Plans 2012. Lakeside HS. [ dead link ]
  3. ↑ "High School Attendance Areas 2016 - 2017 School Year." DeKalb County School System. Retrieved on June 1, 2017.
  4. ↑ "2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: North Decatur CDP, GA" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau . Retrieved July 17, 2024.
  5. ↑ "2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: North Druid Hills CDP, GA" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau . Retrieved July 17, 2024.
  6. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on April 9, 2008. Retrieved August 7, 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ↑ "Administration".
  8. ↑ "GHSA Football Champions | GHSA.net". www.ghsa.net.
  9. ↑ "LHS Alumni - Recent Lakeside graduates who continued with college or professional baseball". Lakeside Vikings Baseball. December 14, 2012. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
  10. ↑ "Past Productions".
  11. ↑ "Awards".
  12. ↑ "Tim Hornsby". Team USA. United States Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved July 1, 2016.
  13. ↑ "Mike Horton, an offensive guard from Lakeside High". Defense Visual Information Distribution Service. December 30, 2014.
  14. ↑ Darnell, Tim (June 6, 2013). "Lakeside Grad Picked to be U.N. Ambassador". Patch.com . Retrieved March 20, 2017.
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