Lakeside High School (Evans, Georgia)

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Lakeside High School
Address
533 Blue Ridge Drive Evans, Georgia, Columbia County, 30809 USA
Information
School district	Columbia County School System
Superintendent	Charles R. Nagle
Principal	Dr. Jeff Carney
Type	Public Secondary
Grades	9-12
Mascot	Panther
Team name	Panthers
Opened	1988
Feeder schools	Lakeside Middle Riverside Middle Blue Ridge Elementary River Ridge Elementary South Columbia Elementary Stevens Creek Elementary[1]
Homepage	http://www.lhspanthers.com/

Lakeside High School is a high school located in Evans, Georgia.

Contents 1 History 2 Notable Alumni 3 References 4 External links

[edit] History

Construction on the school was completed in 1988, and the first classes at the school started session in the fall of that same year. The first students to attend and graduate from Lakeside were mainly transfers from nearby Evans High School. Lakeside's football stadium, Panther Stadium, was later added to the campus adjacent to Lakeside Middle School in 1995.

Lakeside High is located in Columbia County, one of the fastest-growing counties in Georgia. It reached 2,500 enrolled students only five years after its construction. It made up of students from riverside middle school and lakeside middle school. There are 27 offered AP classes as of 2007.

[edit] Notable Alumni

• Ryan Christopher Clark was a victim of the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings
• Reese Hoffa Olympic shot putter
• Josh Kelley a multi-platinum record seller married to Grey's Anatomy star Katherine Heigl.
• Keith Robinson actor (Dreamgirls)
• Ashley Smith hostage and author

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Columbia County Board of Education