Saints families, a venerable East Lake tradition that unites students and teachers across the school, has returned for the 2021-2022 school year. The surprise first session of the year took place on November 17th. Each of the students, teachers and staff members are assigned to a family named for a particular saint whose life and...Read More
East Lake’s 6th grade students turned a recent writing assignment into a fun-filled event for the whole school. The 6th grade writing curriculum includes a business proposal letter, and as is often the case, many of this year’s students wrote to Mrs. Echavez with various suggestions and requests. While some of the proposals were, shall...Read More
What are you grateful for this year as we approach the Thanksgiving holiday? Have you thought about it? Our East Lake students have. In fact, they have been thinking about it for the past three weeks! Gratitude is the virtue of the month for November, and each of the classes have been living this virtue...Read More
The 2021-2022 basketball season is underway. Our boys teams have begun play and the girls teams tip off their season on December 1st. The 4th and 5th grade boys are 2-0 after winning their first two games against St. Gilbert and Prince of Peace. The 6th grade team has been bitten by the injury bug...Read More
As Catholics and followers of Christ, we are called to practice both the spiritual and corporal works of mercy in imitation of Christ, remembering that whatsoever we do for the least of our brethren, we do for Our Lord himself. At East Lake Academy, we take very seriously the call to put our faith into...Read More
School Sports returned to East Lake Academy this fall after a pandemic-related hiatus last year, and our varsity and junior varsity Seraphim runners had a very successful cross country season! All of our athletes competed hard and improved their finishing times over the course of the season as East Lake qualified for the invitational championship...Read More
East Lake Academy is celebrating its 20th anniversary throughout the 2021-2022 school year. Twenty years of forming the hearts, minds and souls of future Catholic leaders! What began as a fledgling school with 13 students teaching classes in space borrowed from the Franciscan friars at Marytown, has grown into a thriving institution with over 150...Read More
East Lake Academy’s Annual Golf Outing “Supporting Our Military Heroes”—On the morning of September 10, 2021, East Lake Academy will hold its Twentieth Annual Family & Friends Golf Outing at the Deerpath Golf Course in Lake Forest, Illinois. The shotgun event starts promptly at 8:00 a.m. (registration at 7:30 a.m.), and will finish by 1:00...Read More
By the grace of God, we did it!! On Friday, June 4th East Lake Academy successfully completed the 2020-2021 school year with 39 straight weeks of in-person learning, truly the rarest of feats in this pandemic year. The video below says it all and truly sums up this EPIC year! Congratulations to our students, teachers,...Read More
Virtual Vibes, this year’s installment of East Lake Academy’s annual Gala benefit takes place on Thursday, May 20th from 6-7 PM. Registration is open now and closes on May 19th. This year’s event is going to be a little different than in years past. In lieu of an in-person even, we are hosting a virtual...Read More
