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Lake Travis High School
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Parent Reviews (8 reviews)
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For a public school, they do a lot. It's big and diverse and the staff tends to have a heavy hand with discipline.
This school focuses on a variety of components that help students on their ways to a better college career. True, a 98 average barely gets you into the top ten percent, but the AP classes have great teachers and all other teachers are very motivating as well. All sports teams have had a turn in the state playoffs-- tennis won state and the well known football team also won this last year. Students are very involved in the community and full of school pride.
Great school for a highly motivated student and/or college prospect athlete. Not a good school for those kids with any sort of difficulty. Expect little support if your kid gets in trouble, they'd rather you leave than help the kid back on the right track. Football is what this school is all about. Huge stadium, indoor football field and a weight room bigger than our Gold's Gym. They will not build another HS. They'd like to have 10 Middle Schools feeding this one mega-campus. Again great school for a college prospect football player. But most kids are not able to compete in any sports because of the size of the school.Tough to get in College from this school an an 80% average puts you in the 4th quartile.
The institutes of study focusing on arts, sciences, and other areas, while still new, are a great way to get students focused on their futures. Fine Arts education, especially the Cavalier Band and theater arts programs at LTHS, is exceptional, and Agriculture studies are also growing strong. Sure, football gets a lot of emphasis, but the Cavaliers generate great school pride. As for parental involvement, in addition to a strong PTA, the district has an Education Foundation formed by volunteers that funds hundreds of thousands of dollars to the schools each year, primarily to programs in this high school.
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