Laurel Highlands Senior High School

From the administration to the teachers niether are focused on what is important today. It is all about $$$.
--Submitted by a parent

Laurel highlands isnt the best school and they teachers arent all that great.. i mean it isnt horrible but it could be better.
--Submitted by a student

This school don't care about your child unless your heavily involved with sports or your mommy or daddy is a doctor or lawyer or such! What a joke!
--Submitted by a parent

Laurel Highlands is an excellent school! The teachers are amazing and unbelievably supportive. Laurel Highlands deserves 5 stars!
--Submitted by a parent

I have to agree that most of these reviews were not my experience at all! I am currently a substitute teacher and I feel my education from LH far exceeded that of the other local schools. However, I also choose, without the involvement of my parents, to take honors/AP classes and participate in track and cross country. I feel that the students and parents who gave this school a bad review fail to realize that everything in life is determined by what you put into it. They use a low socio-economic status as an excuse to not try and expect the teachers to bend over backwards for students who had given attitude and given up a long time ago! The teachers there were and still are of the highest quality and if anyone thinks otherwise, I CHALLENGE YOU to observe a class there for 3 or 4 days and then decide
--Submitted by a student

A couple of the former students posting on here, i get the feeling they never really set foot in the school at all. I too am a former student, class of '03, and just finished my undergrad and in sept became a practicing teacher. 75% of the things I consider a good teacher to have that I try to model myself after came from the teachers I had in high school here. I had teachers that cared and wanted to see me succeed, challenged me, and were very knowledgable. There are activities at LH that I was a part of that when I would mention them in college no one would know what I was talking about. And like Frank said, the Boosters pay for the majority of the athletics spending, most parents and students just dont realize how much books and educational equipment costs in a high school this size.
--Submitted by a student

As a graduate (#16-out-of-298), I am here to say many of these 'reviews' are way off base. LH provides the best academic education in Fayette County, offers a wide variety of AP & Honors classes, and has well educated, enthusiastic teachers. I received a full scholarship to WVU based off my GPA and SAT(1360). I am currently in law school and owe much of my success to the foundation I received at LH Sr. High. I found that in undergrad, my education was light-years ahead of most students at WVU, many of my friends at other schools felt the same. With any school, students get out what they put in. Students who seek help and take advantage of LH's academic programs receive an excellent public education. The extracurricular activities include academic teams, drama,music,publications as well as sports. People who complain about sports don't realize booster organizations raise most of that money.
--Submitted by Frank Swaney, a former student

I am a graduate of this school as is my daughter and I would not recommend this school to anyone who did not excel at sports because that is all the school really cares about. Not the academics which my daughter was excellent in. She graduated in the top 20% of her class and she achieved that without any help from the teachers.
--Submitted by a parent

As a former student, I would not recommend this school and would not send my children here. I think the elem. schools and jr. high are decent, but the sr. high has many flaws, including unqualified teachers. There are a few good depts, such as science and math, however the english, history, and foriegn language depts are very poor.
--Submitted by a former student

This high school has a pretty good academic honors program and overall it is a good school. Students can take advanced placement in math, history, biology and english. My oldest daughter graduated with a 3.9 GPA and scored 1270 on her SAT's. While the school offered an SAT Preparatory course, my daughter felt it just wasn't intense enough. She found the program offered at Huntington Learning Center to be more challenging. This was a downfall of the school. The teachers are very interested in the students. Extracurricular activities are the basics.
--Submitted by a parent