It is situated on the northwest corner of Kipling Avenue and Birmingham Street in Ward 3 of the Toronto District School Board.

LCI has had several sports teams including: ice hockey, baseball, badminton, volleyball, golf, tennis, and soccer.

The soccer team also won the TDSSAA West Region championship for the second time in Lakeshore CI's history in 2008.

Past stage productions have featured performances of Bram Stoker's Dracula, William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Euripides' The Bacchae, Ann-Marie MacDonald's Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, and John Kirkpatrick's Vacancy in Paradise.

In recent years, the LCI music department put on concerts both for the student body and for the public.