| Lakeland High School Lakeland scholae altae |
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| 1630 Bogie Lake Road White Lake, MI White Lake, Michigan, (Oakland County), 48383 United States |
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| Established | 1976 |
| School district | Huron Valley Schools |
| Dean | Mike Fray |
| Principal | Mr. Paul Gmelin |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Number of students | 1,500 |
| Athletics conference | Kensington Lakes Activities Association - North Division |
| Mascot | Eagle |
| Team name | Eagles |
| Accreditation(s) | Advanced ED Certified |
| Newspaper | 'Talon http://www.lakelandtalon.com |
| Yearbook | "Aquila" |
| Activities Director | Scott Rolando |
| Athletic Director | Greg Michaels |
| Website | Lakeland High School |
Lakeland High School is a secondary school located in White Lake, Michigan. The current principal is Currently undecided and the Associate Principals are Liz Mosher and Marc Kay. The Student Activities Director is Scott Rolando. Mike Fray is the Dean of Students and Jon Kirken is the White Lake Township Police Officer assigned to the building. Lakeland opened in 1976, and is in the Huron Valley School District. Most of the incoming students come from two of the Huron Valley middle schools, White Lake Middle School and Oak Valley Middle School. The school currently has 1,500 students. Lakeland High School was named one of the top high schools in the United States by Newsweek in June 2009 and June 2010. Spring 2010 Michigan Merit Examination Scores showed increases in the areas of Math, Reading, Writing, and Science. The school's colors are silver, blue, and white, and the sports teams at Lakeland are called the "Eagles". The school has a historic rivalry with the only other high school in the Huron Valley School District, Milford High School. The school has a newer rivalry with the newest Walled Lake high school, Walled Lake Northern High School.
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Lakeland is home to 28 varsity sports and the Lakeland Athletic Department is currently headed by Mr. Greg Michaels. He is the first full time athletic director in the school's history. Lakeland has won 5 State Titles since opening in 1976. These include 3 in Cross Country, 1 in Gymnastics, and 1 in Girls' Bowling. Also they have a Regional Championship in boy's bowling in 2011. Lakeland is a member of the Michigan High School Athletic Association and the Kensington Lakes Activities Association. They are placed in the North Division. The school is also back to back State Champions in Snowboarding, as of 2011, and a 2007 State Runner-up in Pom Pon. Lakeland's own Garret Zuk is the 2011 MHSAA Division 1 Individual State Champion in Cross Country.
The Lakeland Girls Volleyball program is the back to back to back KLAA Lakes Conference Champion, winning titles in 2009, 2010, and 2011. They were also the 2010 KLAA Association Champions. They are currently coached by varsity coaches Jen and Ricky Cotrill. They are also 2011 MHSAA District Champions.
Lakeland Softball is coached by Mr. Joe Alsup.
The Varsity football program has made leaps and bounds in improvement in the past few years, making the playoffs 3 times in the last 6 years. Before this Lakeland had not made it to the MHSAA playoffs since 1982.
During the 2008 season, under the direction of Varsity Football Coach John Maltese and senior QB Blake Heiman, Lakeland won its first ever MHSAA District Title in football by defeating the Warriors of Birmingham Brother Rice High School. The team was also the Kensington Lakes Activities Association North Division Champions.
The Lakeland Leadership class is taught by Student Activities Director Mr. Scott Rolando. This class strives to teach leadership skills and other leadership related topics and issues to students by conducting various large and small scale school events, including such things as Homecoming, the Toys for Tots party for handicapped children, Winterfest, Mock Car Crashes, and by participating in the national "Every 15 Minutes" program to bring light the issues of drinking and driving. The slogan for this class is "Giving Leaders the Ability to Lead". This class is an application only class. Members of this class also participate in the KLAA Lakes Conference activities, such as a Fall Leadership Forum featuring nationally known motivational speakers.
The Lakeland DECA program is under the direction of business and marketing teacher, Miss Lindsay Rubin. This program offers a chance for students to use their business and marketing skills learned in the business and marketing classes by competing against other students from schools across the state of Michigan and across the country. In the 2010-2011 school year Lakeland DECA took a school record 20 students to the International Career Development Conference in Orlando, Florida. Many are featured in various national DECA publications where photos were taken at that conference. The Lakeland DECA program has grown in size every year since its inception. It currently has close to 90 members and is considered by many to be one of the top 5 DECA programs in Michigan, based on number of students competing at the State Career Development Conference and how many of those students move on to compete at the International Conference.
Future Problem Solvers (FPS) was founded in 2002. FPS is a club in which students learn about interesting issues and are motivated by competition with other schools. Recent competition topics for problem solving include nanotechnology, smart clothes, e-commerce, media impact, and artificial intelligence. In the 2008-2009 school year, a Lakeland team won the State Championship in Future Problem Solvers and had the same team place 8th in the world.
The band program at Lakeland was started in 1974. A scout from the Orange Bowl caught the band at a local parade in its first year of existence and extended an invitation to participate. The Lakeland Band performed at the Orange Bowl in 1976, and was the first performing group ever in the history of the Huron Valley Schools to take a trip out-of-state for a performance.
The band is currently under the direction of Mr. Robert Green. The band competes in the Michigan Competitive Band Association, MCBA, and is a regular participant in the MCBA State Championships and the BOA National Championships. The band is the winner of various state awards for marching bands.
In October of 1983, the Lakeland Eagles marching band took home two important awards at a multi-school band competition. Awarded were senior drum major, Richard Shanks, who won for "State of Michigan Best Drum Major" and John McCormick for best soloist (trumpet). This was the first time the Eagles marching band attended a band competition and the first time individual members received honors for their performances.
Along with the Lakeland Marching Band, there are two other bands offered to students looking to take Band as a performing arts class. The first of the two is called Symphonic Band. This class is offered for students transitioning from middle school band into the new environment of playing at a high school level. The second of the two is called Wind Ensemble. This is the advanced placement band class that is know for their hard work and commitment to the band program. Along with their traditional concerts, they also play for the well known Toys For Tots party that is thrown for disabled children in the area.
In 2011, the Lakeland Marching Band finished 8th in the State of Michigan in Flight 1 at the MCBA State Championships held at Ford Field in Detroit.
Since 2006, the International Academy West has occupied the lower level wing of Lakeland High School. It is the western campus of the International Academy in Bloomfield Hills, which also has an eastern satellite campus in Troy. It enrolls other students from the Huron Valley School District as well as students from other districts, including South Lyon, Fenton, Waterford, Pontiac, Holly, Clarkston, and students from outside of Oakland County. IA West freshmen and sophomores take fine arts classes with Lakeland students, but all their academic classes consist of purely IA West students and are taught by IA West faculty (with the exception of the freshman micro-economics course), as the International Baccalaureate classes that form the core of the IA curriculum are not offered at Lakeland. Currently, the IA West has all four classes. The school's first IB examinations are set to take place in May 2010. The current Associate Principal in charge is Mrs. Nhu Do.