- Lakeview Tech Academy
Infobox School
name = Lakeview Technology Academy
motto = Lakeview, where the power is!
established = 1997
type = Choice Public School
affiliation = Gateway Technical College
district = Kenosha Unified School District
grades = 9 - 12
principal = William Hittman
faculty = 15
students = 376(as of 2008-2009 school year)
colors = Teal, Navy, and White
mascot = Wolf
location = 9449 88th Ave. Pleasant Prairie, WI
country = USA
homepage = http://lakeview.kusd.edu/Lakeview Tech Academy is one of the choice schools of KUSD(Kenosha Unified School District). It is an small school that emphasizes engineering and technology. Lakeview is broken down into a few main 'tracks'. Each track is a series of courses throught high school to help give you skills in a specific career field. These 'tracks' are Engineering, Information Technologies, Automated Manufacturing, and Aviation. At this school, students are allowed to take many college credit classes from teachers from Gateway Technical College.
Demographics
Currently, Lakeview is suffering from a problem of lack of diversity. A majority of the students that choose to attend Lakeview are white males. The school is working hard to try and recruit more females and minorities to attend the school.
Clubs
Dodgeball
Lakeview has a dodgeball club where students and staff get together and go play dodgeball in teams at the Pleasant Prairie RecPlex.
Bowling
Lakeview also has a bowling club in which students bowl with staff to enjoy themselves after school.
FIRST Robotics
Lakeview also has a FIRST Robotics club. This club is team #1652 Lakeview Legends. During the 2008 competition, They were known as the Robot Mafia. There has been controversy with the superintendent of schools over this name. He believes that this name is offensive to Italians. In the 2008 competition, their alliance came in second place after a close loss in the finals due to mechanical failure.
School Staff
Bold text denotes Teachers
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