in length with 180 instructional days in the school year. Local colleges and universities coordinate joint enrollment programs with Lakeside to serve students who wish to pursue college courses while still in high school. Sports and extracurricular activities As of the 2021–22 season. Key: For the 2016–17 season, Lakeside High School competed in GHSA Region 7-AAAAAAA. Lakeside's achievements include: Lakeside won the football state championships in 1970, 1972, and 1991. The 1972 team was unscored upon during the ten game regular season. They had the #1 ranked high school quarterback in the country as well as being the #2 ranked team in the nation. Lakeside's men's varsity ultimate frisbee was ranked 7th in the nation in 2015. Lakeside's men's varsity soccer team won the state championship in 2008, defeating Southeast Whitfield High School. Men's soccer has won the State Championship 7 times (1970, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1981, 1997, and 2008). Lakeside men's Cross Country State Champions: 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1975 Lakeside gymnastics State Champions (men's 1973, women's 9 straight from 1971 to 1979) Lakeside women's swimming has 6 State Championships (1969, 1970, 1971, 1977, 1978, 1981) Lakeside men's tennis State Champions (1980, 1981, 1982, 2001), Women's Tennis (1984) Lakeside men's track State Champions (1970, 1974) Lakeside men's wrestling State Champions (1997) Football The Vikings won state championships in 1970, 1972, and 1991. The team plays at Adams Memorial Stadium and Avondale Stadium. Newspaper The Lakeside Legend was voted "Superior" by GSPA. The newspaper is offered as a fourth period class. Baseball 28 players from Lakeside's last ten graduating classes have gone on to play college or professional baseball. Band The band has performed and won awards in competitions in Chicago, Washington D.C., Myrtle Beach, Orlando, and Hawaii. The Marching Band routinely competes in marching competitions. The band also contains an active jazz band, winter drumline, color guard, and winter guard, which competes in the Southern Association of Performance Arts (SAPA) and won first place in class SrA (2011), and second place in IrA (2012). The band sends four separate groups to the Georgia District IV Large Group Performance Evaluations each year, and currently has the highest number of students from the county in the All-State Band (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) and the most students in the Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony from any one school (2010, 2011, 2014), in addition to having the largest band enrollment in DeKalb County School