Lakeland High School is a four-year public

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Rathdrum, Idaho Rathdrum is a city in Kootenai County, Idaho, United States. The population was 9,211 at the 2020 census, up from 6,826 in 2010. It is part of the Coeur d'Alene Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes the entire county. It is named after ...

, one of two traditional

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s in the Lakeland Joint School District #272 of northern

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. The current campus opened in 1979 as a senior high school(grades 10–12); The two high schools of Rathdrum and Spirit Lake camp together to form Lakeland High School in the fall of 1961. The campus located at the now Lakeland Middle School was built in 1962 and was moved into as soon as it was completed. In 1979, that building became the junior high school. The

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are green and gold and the mascot is a

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. Even though Rathdrum is a small city, many people attend Lakeland High School. As of January 2008, the school enrolled about 800 students in grades 9–12. It serves students from the Rathdrum, Hauser Lake, Twin Lakes, Spirit Lake and Garwood communities, and other nearby areas. The Lakeland Joint School District was formed in 1948 by consolidating 13 smaller districts; the existing high schools in Rathdrum and Spirit Lake to the north operated until the first Lakeland High School opened in 1961. It took 13 years and 14 elections until the funding for LHS was approved by voters in June 1961. The initial Lakeland High School site on Main Street was deemed inadequate and the present site, now the junior high, was finished in 1962. The district's second high school, Timberlake, opened its doors in 1998 in Spirit Lake. The two high schools from Spirit Lake and Rathdrum came together in the fall of 1961 to create Lakeland High School. The original site of Lakeland High School was in the Rathdrum High School, now Mountain View High School, on Main Street in Rathdrum.

Athletics

Lakeland competes in athletics in IHSAA Class 4A, in the Inland Empire League (4A) with

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to the north and

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, about south.

State titles

Boys

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(2): ''fall'' (A-2, now 4A) 1988, 1989 ''(official with introduction of playoffs, A-2 in fall 1978)''idhsaa.org
- Idaho high school football - state champions **''(unofficial poll titles - 0)'' ''(poll introduced in 1963, through 1977)'' *

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(1): (B) 1942 (as Spirit Lake H.S.)idhsaa.org
- Basketball champions - through 2012 *

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(2): (A-2) 1988, 1989

Girls

* Basketball (3): (A-2) 1989, 2001; (3A) 2002idhsaa.org
- Girls Basketball champions - through 2012 ''(introduced in 1976)'' *

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(2): (A-2) 2001; (3A) 2002idhsaa.org
- Softball champions - through 2012 ''(introduced in 1997)'' * Track (1): (3A) 2002idhsaa.org
- Girls Track champions - through 2012 ''(introduced in 1971)'' *

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(4A) 2020 *

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(2) 1996, 1997

Notable alumni

* Josh Phelps, former professional baseball player, class of 1996. * Matthew Inman, author and illustrator, creator of The Oatmeal, class of 2000.

References

External links

*
Lakeland Joint School District #272

Lakeland High School
USA Today High School Sports
- Lakeland Hawks (archive)

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