| Lakeside School | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Seattle, Washington, United States | |
| Information | |
| Type | Private/Independent |
| Established | 1914 |
| Locale | Suburban |
| Head of School | Bernie Noe |
| Faculty | 111 |
| Grades | 5-12 |
| Number of students | 776 |
| School Color(s) | Maroon, Gold |
| Mascot | Lion |
| Endowment | $163 million[1] |
| Religious Affiliation | None |
| Website | www.lakesideschool.org |
Lakeside School is a private/independent school located in the Haller Lake neighborhood at the north city limits of Seattle, Washington, USA, for grades 5–12.
Lakeside regularly sends approximately 15% 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 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.
Lakeside 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]
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.
Lakeside has many different student clubs and programs including:[4]