Lakehurst Secondary School was a secondary school in the Scarborough area of Toronto, 17 minutes away from Degrassi Community School. Lakehurst first appeared in Season 6 of Degrassi: The Next Generation, as a rival school to Degrassi. This ongoing rivalry ultimately reached its climax when Drake Lempkey killed J.T. Yorke in Rock This Town. Lakehurst burned to the ground shortly afterwards, and its students were integrated into Degrassi.
Lakehurst-Degrassi War
Lakehurst was a rival school of Degrassi Community School. This was an intense rivalry that began when a riot started in the Degrassi school's gym. After the riot, the two schools started a war that had many incidents in the 2006-2007 school year. This includes the death of Degrassi student J.T. Yorke. A student from Lakehurst crashed a party where most Degrassi and Degrassi alumni students were attending. After a brief altercation, Drake Lempkey stabbed and murdered J.T., which made the Degrassi students angrier than ever. Mostly because of this event, Degrassi students ruined a cheer competition for the Lakehurst cheer team and a riot occurred in the Degrassi halls. After this, the Lakehurst-Degrassi feud simmered down.
Lakehurst Fire
Some students from Lakehurst
The school burned down during the 2006-2007 school year, forcing the remaining Lakehurst students to attend Degrassi.
Students
- Damian Hayes (class president)
- Mia Jones (transferred to Degrassi Community School 3 months prior to Lakehurst burning down)
- Nora (vice-president)
- Johnny DiMarco
- Drake Lempkey (murdered J.T. Yorke and was arrested before the fire)
- Anya MacPherson
- Sav Bhandari
- Holly J. Sinclair
- Lucas Valieri
- Jane Vaughn
- Bruce
- Nic
- Chris
- Rachel
Notable Events
- Drake Lempkey was responsible for the death of Degrassi student J.T. Yorke. His friend, Johnny DiMarco, was an eyewitness.
- When Lakehurst burned down and all the kids attending the school transferred to Degrassi, it unsettled some of the Degrassi students because of J.T.'s death.
- Chris was arrested for shooting Spinner Mason in the shoulder and holding him and Holly J. Sinclair at gunpoint at The Dot.
- In the tenth season episode Purple Pills (1), Fiona showed Holly J. a list of schools that also held a Vegas Night, and Lakehurst was listed as "Lakehurst Secondary School".
- Holly J., Anya MacPherson and Sav Bhandari were the last remaining Lakehurst students to graduate from Degrassi. They were all part of the Class of 2011.
Trivia
- This was the second school in the Degrassi Franchise that burned down. The first was Degrassi Junior High School.
- There mascot was a Knight in shining armor. Since a poster in a hallway showed a Knight saying: Go Knights!