History
Lake 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.
Funding for the new gym came from the extension of a 2008 bond. The extension generated $9.7 million, which was also used to make renovations to the other schools in the district. Dues to this, Lake Shore High School was able to build a new, more secure entrance at the back of the school and a commons area in addition to the gym. The new entrance is a way of saying "Welcome to Lake Shore," Kling said. The new gym is just more than 17,000 square-feet and has seating for almost 2,000 people, as well as an indoor, rubberized track. While some high school basketball courts are 84 feet long, the court at Lake Shore is 94 feet long, the same size as an NBA-regulation court.
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