Ari Worthman Director of College Counseling ari.worthman@lakesideschool.org
Sam Freccia Assistant Director sam.freccia@lakesideschool.org
Tiffany Fujioka Senior Associate Director tiffany.fujioka@lakesideschool.org
Mark Kranwinkle College Counselor mark.kranwinkle@lakesideschool.org
Catharine Jacobsen Associate Director catharine.jacobsen@lakesideschool.org
Lisa Nelson College Counseling Associate lisa.nelson@lakesideschool.org
Bernie Noe Head of School
Booth Kyle Associate Head of School & Director of Admissions
Felicia Wilks Upper School Director
SCHOOL OVERVIEW Founded in 1919, Lakeside is a coeducational, independent, nonsectarian day school for 858 students in grades 5-12. Admission is highly selective (16%). With 586 enrolled in grades 9-12, 145 are seniors. Students of color comprise 56% of enrollment. Lakeside is a founding partner of Rainier Scholars; 29 are presently enrolled. The student body is comprised of 234 sending schools and currently represents 76 zip codes.
CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS All courses at Lakeside are college preparatory, and although AP courses are not offered, the majority meet or exceed the rigor and depth of the AP curriculum. Honors courses are only available in science and math. Lakeside values a breadth of study in the liberal arts and requires the following distribution: Grade 9
Grade 10
Grade 11
Grade 12
Arts (2 years required)
One yearlong arts course must be completed in the 9th or 10th grade year
Level III or higher courses are designated as “advanced”
English (4 years required)
English 9
English 10
American Studies or American Cultural Studies
English Semester Electives
History (3 years required)
The Human Web or Big History
The Modern World and You or The Modern World: GSL Peru
US History or American Studies
History electives
Languages (through Level III required)
Chinese French
Students must complete at least two sequential years in a single language, one of which must be Level III or higher.
Mathematics (3 years required)
Algebra I Algebra II Geometry
Algebra II Geometry Precalculus
Physical Education (2 years required)
9th Grade Wellness
Two semesters completed by the end of 11th grade
Science (2 years)
Biology
Physics
Global Service Learning (optional)
Students spend 4 weeks in an underdeveloped part of the world, living and working with local people on service learning projects.
Latin Spanish
Geometry Precalculus Calculus AB or BC
Chemistry
Precalculus Calculus AB or BC Accelerated Statistics Multivariable Calculus Math Electives
Organic Chemistry Advanced courses Science electives
Curriculum sessions precede the trip, as well as 24 hours of related service in Seattle following their overseas experience.
Lakeside does not release a grade point average or rank students. It is Lakeside School’s policy to report student suspensions because Lakeside is an institution in which a high level of personal responsibility is expected. All students are asked to sign a Statement of Community Expectations.
QUICK FACTS* Parochial 10%
Other 2% Independent 43%
Public 45%
$6.5 million
Sending Schools to Lakeside *Data from the class of 2017
31%
of students receive need-based aid
in aid awarded
Global Service Learning (GSL) Service Learning 80 hours required
60% of students are involved with a GSL trip
On average, graduates report 146 hours of service
Outdoor Education One week trip required
Lakeside School - 14050 1st Avenue NE, Seattle, WA 98125-3099 - Phone: 206-440-2712 - Fax: 206-440-2911 www.lakesideschool.org - CEEB/ACT: 481120
STANDARDIZED TESTS* SAT Percentile
Reading
Math
25th
670
680
50th
720
740
75th
760
770
43% National Merit recognition
ACT Percentile
11 Presidential
Score
25th
32
50th
34
75th
35
Scholar nominees
*Summary data from the Class of 2017. Includes any score that was reported to at least one college.
Rocky Mountains - 1%
West - 34%
Midwest - 10%
FIVE-YEAR COLLEGE MATRICULATION: CLASSES OF 2013 - 2017 Northeast - 41%
Over the past five years, our students have applied to 289 different colleges. They are attending 134 post-secondary institutions with 88% of graduates enrolled out-of-state. Typically, 100% of students matriculate at four year colleges and universities.
Southeast - 10%
Southwest - 2%
Noncontiguous - <1%
EIGHT OR MORE STUDENTS ENROLLED AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS: Bowdoin 10 Brown 21 Carnegie Mellon 10 U of Chicago 12 Claremont McKenna 11 Columbia 20 Cornell 13 Agnes Scott 2 American University 1 Amherst 6 Arizona State 4 U of Alaska, Anchorage 1 Art Institute of Chicago 1 Barnard 4 Bates 1 Boston College 6 Brandeis 3 U of British Columbia 4 UC Berkeley 6 UC Davis 1 UC Los Angeles 3 Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo 1 Cal Tech 2 Carleton 4 Case Western 2 Catholic University 1 Chapman 4 Colby 5 Colgate 3
Dartmouth 12 Notre Dame 8 Emory 9 U of Pennsylvania 9 Georgetown 14 Pomona 12 Harvard 9 Princeton 8 MIT 19 Santa Clara 18 New York University 16 Scripps 13 Northwestern 13 U of So California 19 Colorado College 4 Colorado State 1 CU Boulder 1 Davidson 3 Deep Springs 1 Duke 6 Eastman School of Music 1 Fordham 2 Franklin Univ (Switz) 1 George Washington 2 Georgia Tech 2 U of Glasgow 1 Gonzaga 4 Hamilton 3 Harvey Mudd 4 Haverford 1 U of Hawaii, Manoa 1 Hofstra 1 Hollins 1 Holy Cross 1 Howard 2 U of Illinois 1
Imperial College 1 Johns Hopkins 6 Julliard 1 Kalamazoo 1 Kenyon 3 Lafayette 2 Lehigh 1 Lewis and Clark 1 Loyola U, Chicago 1 Macalester 1 U of Maryland 1 McGill 1 U of Michigan 5 Middlebury 7 Morehouse 1 NYU Abu Dhabi 1 NYU Shanghai 1 Northeastern 6 Oberlin 2 Occidental 7 Ohio Wesleyan 1 Oregon State 1
Stanford 24 Tufts 18 Wash U in St Louis 10 U of Washington 38 Whitman 21 Yale 20
Oxford 1 U of Pacific 1 Pitzer 7 U of Puget Sound 1 Purdue 1 U of Redlands 3 RPI 2 RISD 2 Rice 1 U of Richmond 1 U of Rochester 4 Saint Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (MN) 1 U of San Diego 3 U of San Francisco 1 Seattle Central CC 1 Seattle University 4 Smith 4 Southern Methodist U 5 U of St Andrews 3 St. Lawrence 1 St. Olaf 2 Swarthmore 5
UT Austin 1 Trinity College, Dublin 1 Trinity University 1 Tulane 4 US Military Academy 1 Vanderbilt 3 Vassar 4 Villanova 3 U of Virginia 2 Wake Forest 3 Washington State 2 U of Washington, Bothell 3 Wellesley 7 Wesleyan 2 Western Washington 7 Whittier 1 William & Mary 1 Williams 5 Worcester Polytechnic 1