[3] It offers many extra curricular sports - volleyball, soccer, touch football, flag football, rugby, basketball, indoor soccer, badminton, track and field and swimming.

Every year the school puts on a play, a variety show and a music concert.

However, community groups joined together to convince Lester B Pearson school board to change this decision.

On the 26 January 2016 the school won a reprieve to stay open for an extra 12 months.

Lakeside (under the informal name "Lachine High") was featured in a humorous anecdote by Matt Kowalewski of the Best Friends Zaibatsu during a Let's Play of Sonic Adventure.