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Lake Travis High School
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Parent Reviews (9 reviews)
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Having come from the top rated school district in the Chicago suburbs I came to Austin with guarded optomism. Lake Travis has exceeded our expectations. The AP classes, arts and extra curricular oppertunities are great. My son does not play football and contrary to some other responses, LT football does not over shadow or diminish the excellence of LT's other sports (particularily girls volleyball, soccer and basketball), arts or academic curriculums. At the football halftime 2 weeks ago all the National Merit finalists were honored, not sports players. Best move we ever made and glad we are in Lake Travis with 2400 students than Westlake with 5500 students.
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.
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