Lake Shore High School

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Lake Shore High School is a high school located in the lakefront community of St. Clair Shores, Michigan. The school, a part of Lake Shore Public Schools, serves grades 9–12. The mascot for Lake Shore is the Shorian. Lake Shore High School offers training in CAD, dental careers, web design and video production along with college advance placement classes and dual enrollment. Lake Shore High School, along with all of the other district schools have been remodeled, equipped and technologically upgraded to serve students in an environment suited for the 21st century. Janelle Bross is the current principal with John Hartley and Todd Stevens as the current assistant principals.HistoryLake Shore was originally a one-room school house that worked with grades first through eighth, located on Thirteen Mile Road and Jefferson Ave. in Saint Clair Shores, Michigan. Charlotte Hoffman attended here, and her father became an active board member who promoted a 2-room school house. Soon after that, it was changed by adding a large blue curtain to separate the 1st–4th and 5th–8th graders. At that time, students who wished to go to high school went to Mount Clemens High School.The first graduating class had 3 students, in 1926.Currently, LSHS has 2 floors, 4 flights of stairs, 1 elevator, an auditorium, a football field, a practice field, a main gym, a performance gym, a divided cafeteria, and a library (media center).Lake Shore High School has had numerous renovations in the past, the latest coming in 2010. Lake Shore added a new student commons and a new Performance gym. The new gym was needed because of a Title IX legislation ruling that stated boys and girls seasons must be at the same time. According to Donald Kling, director of facilities and transportation at Lake Shore Public Schools, LSHS did not have the gym space available for all the practices. Because of scheduling conflicts, some students would be at practice as late as 10 p.m. This forced many districts such as Lake Shore to add performance gyms.