SCHOOL OVERVIEW

2014-2015 PROFILE
SCHOOL OVERVIEW
Bernie Noe
Head of School
Booth Kyle
Assistant Head of School &
Director of Admissions
Alixe Callen
Upper School Director
Founded in 1919, Lakeside is a coeducational, independent, nonsectarian day school for 828 students in
grades 5-12. Admission is highly selective (19%). This year the school awarded over $5.5 million in needbased aid to 30% of our students. With 560 enrolled in grades 9-12, 139 are seniors. Students of color
comprise 50% of our enrollment. In addition, Lakeside is a founding partner of Rainier Scholars, 21 of
whom are currently enrolled in the Upper School.
Lakeside School is also a founding member of the Global Online Academy (GOA), a consortium of the
world’s leading independent schools whose mission is to translate the intellectually rigorous programs
and excellent teaching that are hallmarks of its member schools into online classrooms. All GOA courses
are recorded on our transcripts and receive Lakeside credit.
CURRICULUM REQUREMENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS
COLLEGE COUNSELING
OFFICE
Ari Worthman
Director of College Counseling
ari.worthman@lakesideschool.org
All courses at Lakeside are college preparatory, and meet or exceed the rigor and depth of the AP
curriculum, although AP courses are not offered. Honors courses are only available in the Sciences and
Math. Lakeside values a breadth of study in the liberal arts and requires the following distribution for
graduation:
•
English (4 years required): All students complete the same sequence of courses in freshman and
sophomore years. This is followed by two years of increasing choice in course selections, including
American literature and electives focusing on literary genres. Many students opt to take AP English
exams.
tiffany.fujioka@lakesideschool.org
•
Sam Freccia
College Counselor
History (3 years required): Students complete, in sequence: Modern World History (1200-1870),
Contemporary World History (1870-present), and United States History. Many students opt to take
the World and US History AP exams.
•
Science (2 years required): Biology, Physics, and Chemistry are our three foundation courses.
Lakeside offers standard and honors versions of both Physics and Chemistry. All courses are
characterized by an accelerated pace and depth, and Honors classes provide students with the
option to take AP exams in Physics B and Chemistry.
•
Math (3 years required): Accelerated and Honors courses are offered for those who show special
interest and aptitude. All levels of calculus at Lakeside prepare students for either the AB or BC
exams.
•
Languages (through level III): We offer Chinese, French, Latin and Spanish. The curriculum heavily
emphasizes communication, and ifty percent of all assessment in living languages is based on
verbal performance. Students are prepared for AP exams at the end of level IV in Chinese, French,
and Spanish.
•
Arts (2 years required): We offer drawing, painting, ceramics, theatre, vocal and instrumental music
courses. Students in level III or above (specializers) are required to complete extensive independent
work in their disciplines.
•
Service Learning (80 hours required)
•
Physical Education (2 years required)
•
Outdoor Education (1-week trip)
•
Global Service Learning (GSL): Students spend at least a month in an underdeveloped part of the
world, living and working with local people on service learning projects. Students learn about global
issues - health, poverty, philanthropy, development economics, education - as they pertain to their
speci ic site, through 35 hours of curriculum sessions immediately preceding the trip, and 24 hours
of related service in Seattle following their overseas experience.
Tiffany Fujioka
Associate Director
sam.freccia@lakesideschool.org
Catharine Jacobsen
College Counselor
catharine.jacobsen@lakesideschool.org
Mark Kranwinkle
College Counselor
mark.kranwinkle@lakesideschool.org
Lisa Nelson
College Counseling Assistant
lisa.nelson@lakesideschool.org
Lakeside School
14050 1st Avenue NE
Seattle, WA 98125-3099
Phone: 206-440-2712
Fax: 206-440-2911
www.lakesideschool.org
CEEB/ACT: 481-120
STANDARDIZED TESTS:
National Merit
2012
Semi inalists
31
Commended
49
Nat’l Hispanic Scholar
2
Nat’l Achievement Scholar 5
TOTAL
78
2013
41
48
5
3
97
2014
42
38
2
6
88
2015
33
45
4
4
86
Percent of class
67%
69%
62%
59%
SAT I*
75%
50%
25%
Critical Reading
Math
Writing
780
790
760
750
750
700
680
700
670
ACT*
75%
34
50%
32
25%
31
*Summary data from the Class of 2014. Includes
any score that was reported to at least one college.
GRADING INFORMATION AND DISTRIBUTION:
Lakeside does not release a grade point average or
rank students. Instead, this distribution of grades
from junior year coursework provides a measure
of comparative performance. Lakeside does not
participate in Cum Laude or the National Honor
Society. In addition, Lakeside has no internal
academic honors, awards or recognitions.
DISCIPLINARY REPORTING POLICY:
It is the policy of Lakeside School to report student
suspensions.
AMERICAN CULTURAL
STUDIES (SPRING)
A
A-
B+
B
B-
C+
26
43
20
6
2
4
C
or below
0
AMERICAN STUDIES
7
5
11
5
4
1
2
US HISTORY
21
42
16
9
8
1
3
ALL UPPER LEVEL
LANGUAGES (III & UP)
91
66
30
32
19
6
6
PRECALCULUS (ALL LEVELS)
26
39
25
26
13
2
0
CALCULUS (AB & BC)
43
21
31
16
5
3
1
ADVANCED SCIENCE
40
34
20
13
3
1
1
HONORS CHEMISTRY
25
10
9
3
1
2
0
CHEMISTRY
17
29
13
19
3
2
3
296
289
175
129
58
22
16
TOTALS
FIVE-YEAR COLLEGE MATRICULATION: CLASSES OF 2010 - 2014
Over the past ive years, our students have applied to 308 different colleges. They are attending 139 post-secondary institutions with
86% of graduates enrolled out-of-state. Each year some students postpone enrollment for gap year activities, and 100% matriculate at
four year colleges and universities.
American University
Amherst
Art Inst. of Chicago
U of Arizona
Arizona State
Babson
Bard
Barnard
Boston College
Bowdoin
Brandeis
U of British Columbia
Brown
Bucknell
UC Berkeley
UC Los Angeles
Cal Tech
Carleton
Carnegie Mellon
Catholic University
Chapman
U of Chicago
Claremont McKenna
Colby
Colgate
Colorado College
Columbia
U of Colorado, Boulder
3
5
1
1
3
1
1
7
7
6
2
3
14
2
2
1
4
8
12
1
1
5
12
4
2
9
17
1
Cornell
15
Dartmouth
5
Davidson
2
Deep Springs
2
U of Denver
4
Dickinson College
1
Duke
7
Eastman School of Music 1
Emerson
1
Emory
10
Fordham
1
Franklin College (Switz) 1
George Washington
7
Georgetown
12
Georgia Tech
1
Gettysburg
1
Gonzaga
1
Hamilton
1
Harvard
14
Harvey Mudd
3
Haverford
2
Hofstra
1
Hollins
1
Howard
3
U of Illinois
2
Imperial College
1
Johns Hopkins
8
Kalamazoo
1
Kenyon
Lafayette
Lewis and Clark
Loyola Marymount
Loyola U, Chicago
Loyola U, New Orleans
Macalester
U of Maine
Manchester College
Manhattanville
Marist
MIT
Master’s College
U of Michigan
Middlebury
Mills College
Mount Holyoke College
Nagoya (Japan)
New York University
NYU Abu Dhabi
U of North Carolina
Northeastern
Northwestern
Notre Dame
Oberlin
Occidental
Oregon State
U of Oregon
2
2
3
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
9
1
3
7
1
3
1
9
1
2
2
12
5
5
9
1
1
U of Pennsylvania
Pitzer
Pomona
U of Portland
Princeton
U of Puget Sound
Redlands
Reed
RPI
RISD
Rice
U of Rochester
Rollins
Royal Col. of Surgeons
Sacred Heart
St. Mary’s of California
U of San Francisco
Santa Clara
Sarah Lawrence
Scripps
Seattle University
Simon Fraser
Smith
U of So California
Southern Methodist U
St. John’s (NY)
Stanford
Swarthmore
6
4
16
2
8
3
4
1
2
3
2
3
1
1
1
1
1
23
1
15
2
1
3
18
2
1
18
2
Syracuse
Trinity Col (IRE)
Tufts
Tulane
Union
US Military Academy
U of Utah
Vanderbilt
Vassar
Villanova
U of Virginia
Wake Forest
Washington & Lee
Washington State
Wash U
U of Washington
Webb Institute
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Western Washington
Westmont
Wheaton (MA)
Whitman
Whittier
Williams
College of Wooster
Yale
1
1
5
4
1
1
1
3
6
4
2
2
2
5
10
47
1
10
8
10
1
1
23
2
6
1
10