Extra-curricular Activities and Non-core Classes
Lanier has a wide array of activities that students can participate in.
Sports: Track and Field, Cross Country, Volleyball, Football, Soccer, Baseball, Softball, Basketball, and Swim Team.
Classes and after school Activities: Speech and Debate, Drama, Art/Media Kids, robotics, chess club, Model United Nations, photography, Fiction Club, Geography Club, NJHS, Band, Cheerleading, Drill Team, Name that Book, Ladies of Lanier, Breakdancing, Student Council, Orchestra, Yearbook
The Lanier dance team, the Expressions, are have won 3 consecutive national championships, and their officer line is the best middle school officer line in HISD. The Expressions also do many trips, including performing in Disney. They are under the direction of Stacey Kornegay and Suzanne Wolfe.
Lanier's debate team have won 9 consecutive national championships and are very successful team led by Franz Hill. The Lanier Band has won the Texas regional band competition back to back and is led by Ali Jackson and the Lanier drama team has won multiple competitions in the last three years. Although not a fine arts magnet like Johnston Middle School, Lanier has repeatedly placed higher in competitions, and although the band program has over two hundred students, the band is directed by only one person, who manages the band very well. The Lanier band is considered the best HISD Middle School band.
The Lanier football team finished the season with 1 win under coach L.C Kirkpatrick during 2012.
Laurette McDonald, the conductor of the orchestra, leads the students with many awards and an excellent orchestra, who is the best best in the district(HISD)and number three in the state
Languages: Spanish, French, German, Mandarin Chinese
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