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•September 17, 2024•By

Introducing Our New Library!

We are proud to say that many of our students are bookworms and avid readers! Who doesn’t love a good book? Here at East Lake, we love our chapter books, novels, and picture books that we, as a staff, grew up reading, as children. We hope that we can cultivate a love of reading in...
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•September 9, 2024•By

And We’re Off!!!

We’re off to a great start! The teachers spent weeks planning and preparing for the first days of school, and it’s truly wonderful to see plans come to fruition. We have completed our third week of school. We’ve had many firsts these last few weeks, and we’re getting back in the swing of things. It’s...
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•November 22, 2022•By

Happy Thanksgiving From East Lake Academy

On behalf of the Board of Directors, faculty and staff of East Lake Academy:  a very Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving to all of our families, friends and supporters. Enjoy a look at some of the projects are students have been working on in art class.  
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•October 31, 2022•By

Elevate Your Advent: ELA Compass Event

ELA COMPASS EVENT All Parents Invited – November 18th @ 7pm The next installment of East Lake Academy’s Compass Pointing to Heaven series is coming up! Elevate Your Advent: A Night of Formation and Prayer for ELA Parents will take place on Friday, November 18th at 7pm at the school. Jesse Weiler, ELA parent and Director...
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•September 21, 2022•By

East Lake Golf Outing Supports Military Families

East Lake Academy’s 21st annual golf outing, Supporting Our Military Heroes, took place on the beautiful late-summer morning of September 9th. Legend has it that it has never once rained on the ELA golf outing, and this year’s event was no exception. The scramble-style event was held at Deerfield Golf Course in Lake Forest and...
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•August 31, 2022•By

East Lake Academy Presents Compass Pointing to Heaven!

This year, East Lake Academy is launching a new initiative for our families, Compass: Pointing to Heaven, a monthly series of family and spiritual enrichment events. Compass events will be held on the third Friday evening of each month at school. The goal of each Compass event at East Lake to provide a forum for...
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•August 4, 2022•By

21st Annual East Lake Academy Golf Outing

East Lake Academy’s Annual Golf Outing “Supporting Our Military Heroes” On the morning of September 9th, 2022, East Lake Academy will hold its Twenty-first 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...
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•April 21, 2022•By

East Lake Celebrates 20 Years!

On Friday, April 8th, East Lake Academy celebrated its 20th anniversary with a special anniversary liturgy celebrated by Bishop Jeffrey Grob and concelebrated by our chaplain, Fr. Andrew Kolenda as well as former East Lake chaplains Fr. Chad Everts, Fr. Joshua West and Fr. Matthew Kaderabek. The gym was full to capacity and the beautiful...
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•February 18, 2022•By

Third Graders Present Wax Museum

The creative students in Ms. Gorman’s third grade class treated the school to an interactive wax museum experience as part of a recent assignment. As part of their Language Arts and Social Studies curriculums, the students were assigned to research a famous person using both internet and books and to write about their childhoods, adult...
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