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Lakeside School is a private school for youth (grades 5 through 12) 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 regularly sends up to 25% of its graduating class to Ivy League schools, and 99% to college. Its most famous alumni are Bill Gates and Paul Allen, founders of Microsoft, who got their start programming tic-tac-toe on a computer purchased jointly 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 former Washington State Governor Booth Gardner. In addition, many of the school's teachers are alumni.
Lakeside was cast into the public eye in 2005, when Bill Gates donated $30 million to the school. Another $40 million came in from anonymous donors.
Beginning 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 poor people around the world. In 2005 students visited India, Peru, and China; in the summer of 2006 students will travel to Peru, China, Morocco, and the Dominican Republic. The Middle School will open its first Global Service Learning Program for the Middle School 7th graders with a trip to the Makah Indian Reservation on Neah Bay in Washington.
Facts and figures
Facts and figures (as of September 2005):
- Enrollment: 773 (368 boys, 391 girls)
- Faculty: 102 (43 men, 59 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: $19,480+; Grades 9-12: $20,100+; (Financial Aid Available)
- Laptops required: grades 7-12
- Endowment: approx. $56,000,000
- Percentage of students receiving some financial aid: 15-25%
- Students that are not of Caucasian race: 34%
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