Lakeside School

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Lakeside School
Image:Lsidecrest.jpg
Established	1914
School type	Private
Locale	Suburban
Grades	5-12
Headmaster	Bernie Noe
Location	Seattle, Washington, USA
Enrollment	776
Faculty	91
Colors	Maroon, Gold
Mascot	Lion
Religious Affiliation	None
Website	www.lakesideschool.org

Lakeside School is a private school for grades five through twelve located in the Haller Lake neighborhood at the north city limits of Seattle, Washington, USA. 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.

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.

Lakeside regularly sends up to 25% of its graduating class to Ivy League schools, and 99% 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 a cellular telephone empire which they eventually sold to AT&T Wireless, Adam West (TV's Batman and the voice of Mayor Adam West on Family Guy), the bestselling author Po Bronson, the prizefighter Brigid McManama, and former Washington State Governor Booth Gardner. In addition, many of the school's teachers are alumni.

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 will travel to Peru, China, Morocco, India, and the Dominican Republic. The Middle School opened its first Global Service Learning Program for 7th graders with trips to the Makah Indian Reservation on Neah Bay in the summer of 2006, and has planned an 8th grade trip to go to Costa Rica in the summer of 2007.

Lakeside students have the opportunity to study abroad during their junior year of high school through an organization called School Year Abroad, of which Lakeside is a member school. Students may apply in the fall of their sophomore year to spend their junior year in Spain, France, Italy, or China.

Facts and figures

Facts and figures (as of August 2006):

• Enrollment: 776 (382 boys, 394 girls)
• Faculty: 91 (45 men, 46 women)
• Faculty with advanced degrees: 59%
• Student/Teacher Ratio: 9:1
• Average Class Size: 16
• Percentage of College-Bound Graduates: 99%
• Tuition: Grades 5-8: $20,450+; Grades 9-12: $21,100+; (Financial Aid Available)
• Laptops required: grades 7-12
• Endowment: approx. $126,800,000
• Percentage of students receiving some financial aid: 24%%
• Students that are not of Caucasian race: 38%
• Library Volumes: 37,500
• Percentage of Senior Class with National Merit Recognition: 46%

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
• Booth Gardner '54, Governor of Washington 1985-1993, ambassador to GATT
• Craig McCaw '68, cellular phone pioneer
• Paul Allen '71, co-founder of Microsoft
• Bill Gates '73, co-founder of Microsoft
• Hal Foster, art critic
• Adam West, TV's Batman, voice of Mayor Adam West on Family Guy
• Po Bronson, author

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