Lake Ridge Academy Announces Class of 2019 Valedictorian and Salutatorian

Lake Ridge Academy announced its Valedictorian, Jodie Xiaojing Deng, and Salutatorian, Laila Haidar.

Jodie is a native of Shenyang, in the Liaoning province of China and arrived in the United States in 2017 at a sophomore through Lake Ridge Academy’s international program. She is the first international student to achieve this honor at Lake Ridge. Jodie will be attending Johns Hopkins University this fall to study chemistry and bimolecular engineering.

Laila is a resident of Strongsville and will be attending Oberlin College this fall to pursue a degree in art history.

Lake Ridge Academy’s Class of 2019 will graduate on Saturday, June 1 at 2:00 pm on the school’s campus in the Bettcher Conovation Center. The 39 graduates in the class have earned $3 million in college scholarships. 67% of the class will attend out-of-state colleges, while 33% will stay in-state.

About Lake Ridge Academy

Lake Ridge Academy (www.lakeridgeacademy.org) is an independent, nonsectarian day school offering co-educational classes from kindergarten through grade 12. Founded in 1963, Lake Ridge Academy is committed to providing small class sizes and maintains an 8:1 student to teacher ratio. Located on a beautiful 93-acre campus in North Ridgeville, Ohio, Lake Ridge Academy is the only K-12 private, independent college preparatory school on Cleveland’s west side.