Lahser High School is a high school

High school

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 in Bloomfield Hills

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

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, Michigan

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. Opened in 1967 with 200 students, it now has under 900 students. Now the school is receiving the International Baccalaureate program for the class of 2013 and beyond. The teachers at Lahser have been preparing for this for 3 years. The football program has had five consecutive playoff-eligible seasons, 2002–2006, in both class 3 and class 2 MHSAA competition. In 2010 the decision was made to merge Andover and Lahser High schools in order to build a new high school that would reside on Andover's grounds. Lahser's athletic facilities will be kept for use by the new high school.

Lahser has won several MHSAA

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 state championships including: men's soccer-1999, men's/women's tennis, women's lacrosse, and women's golf. Lahser currently competes within the Oakland Activities Association Blue Division for football. Most of Lahser's students come from Bloomfield Hills and Bloomfield Township

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. Lahser's crosstown rival is Andover High School

Andover High School (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan)

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, which is also located in Bloomfield Township.

Academic Departments

Lahser offers several AP courses and will be introducing IB courses starting 2013. There are a variety of courses available to take, and departments include:

• Business
• Communication & Dramatic Arts
• Deaf/Hard of Hearing
• Engineering
• English
• Family & Consumer Science
• Health & Physical Education
• IB DP (International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme)
• Man in Nature (MIN)
• Math
• Model United Nations (MUN)
• Music & Theater Departments
• Science
• Social Studies
• Support Services or Directed Studies
• Visual Arts
• World Languages

Athletic Departments

Fall sports:

• Cheerleading
• Color Guard/Winter Guard
• Marching Band
• Cross Country
• Dames
• Football
• Girls Golf
• Boys Soccer
• Girls Swimming & Diving
• Boys Tennis
• Girls Volleyball

Winter Sports:

• Girls Basketball
• Boys Basketball
• Cheerleading
• Color Guard/Winter Guard
• Boys Bloomfield Ice Hockey
• Girls Bloomfield Ice Hockey
• Skiing
• Boys Swimming
• Wrestling

Spring sports:

• Boys Baseball
• Boys Golf
• Boys Lacrosse
• Girls Lacrosse
• Girls Soccer
• Girls Softball
• Girls Tennis
• Track & Field

Notable alumni

• Tanith Belbin
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  , 2006 Olympic Ice Dancing Silver Medalist (attended 1999-2000)
• Armen Keteyian
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  , investigative reporter for CBS News
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   and correspondent for the HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
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  .
• Neil Mandt
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  , film producer and director (1988)
• Chad Smith
  Chad Smith
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  , drummer for the band Red Hot Chili Peppers
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   (1980)
• Will Peters, CEO and CIT for Advent Systems (2006)

External links

• Lahser High School
• Bloomfield Hills Public Schools