Lakeside School
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Lakeside School is a private school (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 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 builings.
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 (Batman), Bob Barker, and Governor Booth Gardner.
Recently, Lakeside has been recognized in national publications for its students' exceptional SAT scores and high admission rates to top universities. Widely regarded as one of the top college prep schools in the country, it regularly sends up to 25% of its graduating class to Ivy League schools.
The school's network of friends and alumni found itself at the center of a cover-up controversy in 1988 after the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper revealed the extent to which Lakeside connections in the law, business, and press arenas had protected King County Superior Court Judge Gary Little, who, as a teacher at Lakeside in the late 1960s, coerced young boys into sex in exchange for membership in an exclusive group that promised them mentoring on such subjects as getting into Harvard. Little taught a popular pre-law seminar at Lakeside between 1968 and 1971. When P-I reporter Duff Wilson called the judge to say an exposé on Little's out-of-court relations with juvenile defendants, as well as his history of molesting boys at the private school, was to be published the next day, the judge committed suicide. See http://www.astonisher.com/archives/gary_little.html
Facts and figures
Facts and figures (as of September 2002):
- Enrollment: 724 (370 boys, 354 girls)
- Faculty: 89
- Tuition: Grades 5-8: $18,550+; Grades 9-12: $19,320+; (Financial Aid Available)
External links
- Lakeside School website (http://www.lakesideschool.org)