3963 Concord Pl
Augusta, GA 30907

They do not have a playground for handicap children. They just have to watch the other children play. They could at least get a swing for them.

I am the parent of a rising senior who has been at Lakeside all years, including through COVID. School is what your teenager makes of it. My kid has had a great learning experience at Lakeside, more opportunity than where we used to live in another state. At Lakeside there is an opportunity for students who like to learn to choose AP or IB curricula. We have a motivated and engaged teen who is interested in learning so both AP and IB options have been excellent. The IB teachers do care about your kid and challenge them to think critically. The band program and other clubs my kid participates in are enjoyable and motivated my child to learn or do different things outside of school and make new friends. In reading the other negative comments....High school is what your kid makes of it. There are the obvious things that happen in most high schools, public and private: smoking/vaping, fights, cliques, bullying, mean girls, cheating, etc. That's life. Parents have a responsibility to help their kids make good choices. Schools have a responsibility to provide opportunities. If kids don't make the right choices given the opportunities it doesn't make it a bad school. The administration here does care and communicates effectively, and have tried different policies to curb smoking etc. My kid's counselor has been really supportive when needed. It is a large school so for some kids they may get lost in the crowd. My kid hasn't had great teachers 100% of the time all 4 years but I would say 80% of the time we have been pleased with the quality of the teaching, especially in IB. I asked my kid-- they would choose Lakeside again given the opportunities -- which makes me happy to recommend it to others.

I highly advise you against sending your students to this school if you can help it. If your student is not already a self-motivated high-perform, they will languish in the classrooms at Lakeside Middle School. At this school, their preferred method of teaching is through videos and an online learning platform called "iReady". That is to say, their preferred method of teaching is to not teach and to delegate it to useless computer software. Then, they pat themselves on the back for having "satisfactory metrics" but, in reality, they're either curving the metrics or allowing the students to retake it until they get enough right. Sadly, though, the students aren't learning any material...they're just learning to guess better to get out of these moronic iReady modules. What is being done at Lakeside Middle School should, frankly, be illegal. To be honest, it likely will be illegal in the future, but it'll be too little too late for the kids that are currently experiencing this video/iReady-first style of teaching.As you might expect, in an age where kids' attention spans have been whittled away down to zero through the prolific use of screens at home, putting another screen in front of them is a terrible idea. If you wanted to go this route, you would need to invest heavily in training your student's attention spans so that they can engage with the "learning screen" in a productive way. Of course, this doesn't happen. At Lakeside Middle School, the administration is more than happy to plop them down in front of a screen and hope for the best.