Lapeer West Senior High School

Community of Lapeer wake up! The future of our kids is a stake! Does our superintendent and schoolboard know what they are doing?Our 35 year old superintendents goal to combine Lapeer East and West, creating a high school containing well over 2000 kids. The Ideal Size High School by /Valerie E. Lee a professor of education at the University of Michigan says most effective high schools have 600 to 900 students. Students learned more in these schools and less in larger schools.We felt that high schools with 600 to 900 students were large enough to offer a full and solid curriculum, but small enough so students were known well by their teachers and didn t get lost in the cracks. These findings should be a consideration for districts that consolidate schools for budget reasons, particularly because the expected savings of operating fewer schools in many cases (given higher transportation costs, and the need for a denser administrative staff in the large school, for example) may not fully materialize. The major cost of operating schools is staff. Consolidating two schools into one would probably not result in staff reductions or savings and lesson the educational value.

The board and new sup have decided they want to close this school and create a Mega school by combining it with Lapeer East. Again they know better and did not listen to community input just 4 years ago. They just upped their terms in office from 4 to 6 years by voting to change school bylaws....? maybe to see this through and not get voted out before the job is done? The k- 8 numbers are down do to charter, private and home schoolers...that is were the attention needs to be addressed. .High school numbers have been flat over the past 20 years......both high schools will only hold up to 1500 kids. ....not 2100Puting 9th graders back into the middle schools is worse than having the 8th graders in the high school,.....like it was! 6th - 9th?.in same school?...now 6th and 7th and 8th graders will now be exposed to high school kids. We just took action against this 3 years ago! The board again, did not listen to the communty. Good luck getting your bond passed in 4 year from now! We will call you out again. just wrong
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We have had a great schools at Lapeer West so far. My son started in the 8th grade, which was not ideal, but West made the best of the situation in keeping the 8th graders separate from the rest of the students. The school is now 9th-12th and we have a great experience so far, with very involved, attentive teachers, as well as a great prinicpal. Mr. Zeeman is very involved and gets to know all the kids by name.
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Great school, could use more updates. My children love it and the diversity in classes and teachers.
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Frankly, my learning experience at Lapeer West was far surpassed at numerous other schools and I want future classes to have it better than I did. This school needs better funding, and anything that serves that goal is worthwhile as far as I'm concerned.
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Great school, Art department is nationally known
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We have a Great group of Teacher and they all care about the kids! They work hard to improve our system. Great teaching gets Great kids!
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This is an excellent school! Go west football team! You rule! You are the best!

There are two high schools in lapeer, one for the east side and the other for the west side! Lapeer west has very good athletics, there are alot of drugs and fighting but the school handels in correctly. For a small town this is a very good school. The school is on the small side but it works. I would definetely reccomend this school to any parnet who wants there child to have a good education.
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My daugther has been a student at Lapeer West since her freshman year. She is now a junior and absolutely loves it. There are some things i dont really like about it, like the drugs, but over all its a very good school. She is involved in all kninds of sports and student activities. Lapeer West is a great school for athletics. I would highly reccomend this school...
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