Laurelhurst Community Club                                                     

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Laurelhurst Community Center Survey Results

February 2007

Created by Susan Rucker 02/27/07

 

 

**************All responses are out of a total of 198 responses received*************

 

Question 1:  Types of Programs and for which age group

 

Top Choices were Adults Sports & Fitness, Grades K-3 Sports & Fitness, and Adult Arts&Culture programming:

 

Age and Type of Program

Responses

 

Age and Type of Program

Responses

 Adults-SportsFitness

101

 

 Pre-Environ

27

 K-3-SportsFitness

75

 

 K-3-Environ

27

 Adults-ArtsCulture

71

 

 Family-Environ

27

 K-3-SummerCamps

63

 

 SeniorAdults-ArtsCulture

26

 K-3-ArtsCulture

63

 

 Grades4-6-SpecialEvents

26

 Grades4-6-SportsFitness

62

 

 Grades4-6-Environ

25

 Pre-SportsFitness

61

 

 Grades7-8-SummerCamps

24

 Pre-ArtsCulture

58

 

 Teens-ArtsCulture

22

 Family-SpecialEvents

57

 

 Teens-Environ

21

 Adults-SpecialEvents

55

 

 K-3-OutofSchoolCare

21

 Teens-SportsFitness

52

 

 Pre-OutofSchoolCare

20

 Family-SportsFitness

47

 

 Teens-SummerCamps

19

 Pre-SummerCamps

42

 

 Grades7-8-SpecialEvents

19

 Pre-SpecialEvents

42

 

 Grades7-8-ArtsCulture

19

 Grades4-6-SummerCamps

42

 

 SeniorAdults-SpecialEvents

18

 Grades4-6-ArtsCulture

41

 

 Grades7-8-Environ

17

 K-3-SpecialEvents

40

 

 Grades4-6-OutofSchoolCare

15

 Grades7-8-SportsFitness

40

 

 SeniorAdults-Environ

11

 Family-ArtsCulture

39

 

 Teens-OutofSchoolCare

8

 SeniorAdults-SportsFitness

32

 

 Family-SummerCamps

7

 Adults-Environ

28

 

 Grades7-8-OutofSchoolCare

6

 Teens-SpecialEvents

27

 

 

 

 

By Age Group, the most responses were found for Grades K-3, followed by Adult:

 

Grades K-3

289

Adults

264

Preschool

250

Grades 4-6

211

Family

180

Teens

149

Grades 7-8

125

Seniors

91

 

Questions 2& 3: Zipcodes and Schools Associated with each Household:

 

Zipcodes – by far mostly from the 98105 region (169 out of 182 responses):

 

98105

98115

98125

Grand   Total

Total

169

11

2

182

 

Listing of answers to schools attended:

 

55th Street Preschool, Laurelhurst

AEII (Decatur)

ASB. Blanchet

Assumption

Assumption grade school, and Blanchett High School

Assumption St Bridget
Bishop Blanchet

Assumption St. Bridget

Assumption St. Bridgets
Villa Academy

Assumption, Roosevelt, Blanchet

Assumption-St. Bridget

Assumption-St. Bridget School
Bishop Blanchet High School

Assumption-St. Bridget, Roosevelt

Assumption-St.Bridget

Attended 9th Avenue Children's House (downtown Seattle).
Attend Villa Academy.

attends View Ridge Elementary and will attaend Eckstein next year

Billings Middle School, Eastside Catholic

Bishop Blanchet
Holy Names

Blanchet

Blanchet High School

Blossiming Buds Preschool, The Evergreen School

Blossoming Bud Preschool
Laurelhurst Elementary School

Bright Horizons

Bryant Elementary

Bryant Elementary, Eckstein MS

Bush School

Cedar Park Toddler Preschool Co-op (operated by North Seattle Community College)

Children attend Eckstein Middle School and Roosevelt High School.

Christopher Robin, Laurelhurst

Christopher Robin, Villa

Eckstein

Eckstein and Roosevelt

Eckstein middle school
Bishop Blanchet HS

Eckstein Middle School
Roosevelt High School

Eckstein
Assumption - St. Bridget

Eckstein, Laurelhurst

Eckstein, Nathan Hale, Roosevelt

Eckstein, Roosevelt

Eckstein, Villa Academy, University Prep

Eckstein,RHS,Nathan Hale

Evergreen

First Class Kids, Nanny's 3

Home school

Jewish Community Center (Wedgewood)

John Rogers, Villa

Kids are not in school yet.

Kids Place

Kids Place (Preschool).

Kid's Place Preschool in Laurelhurst
Assumption St. Bridget's Catholic School

Kids Place Preschool, Laurelhurst Elementary

Lakeside

Lakeside
Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences

Laurelhurst

Laurelhurst

Laurelhurst & The Children's Center @ Burke Gilman Gardens (on Sand Point Way NE)

Laurelhurst Elem

Laurelhurst Elem  and Eckstein Middle

Laurelhurst Elem, Bethany Bear's Preschool

Laurelhurst Elem.

Laurelhurst Elementary

Laurelhurst Elementary & Lowell Elementary

Laurelhurst Elementary School

Laurelhurst Elementary
Nurturing Knowledge Preschool

Laurelhurst Elementary, Children's Center at Burke Gilman Gardens

Laurelhurst Elementary, Eckstein Middle School

Laurelhurst Elementary, Fremont Community School

Laurelhurst Elementary; Blossoming Buds Preschool

Laurelhurst elementary; Eckstein; Roosevelt

Laurelhurst School, Eckstein Middle School

Laurelhurst, Eckstein

Laurelhurst, Eckstein, Roosevelt

Laurelhurst, Lakeside, St Marks

Laurelhurst, Nurturing Knowledge Preschool

Nanny's 3

Nate Benjamin

No children at home, but please include Laurelhurst Elementary School, Villa Academy,
Ecstein, Roosevelt and Garfield

Northwest School
Lakeside School

Nurturing Knowledge

Our child is only 12 months right now, but he is enrolled at the U-Village Bright
Horizons Daycare.

our savior lutheran preschool
laurelhurst elementary

Radford court childrens center

Roosevelt

Sandhurst Cooperative Preschool (located at Sandpoint Community United Methodist
Church 4710 N.E.70th Street 98115)

Sandhurst Preschool

The Bush School

The Bush School
Lakeside Middle School

The Children School
Villa Academy

The Children's School

The Childrens School, Bethany Bears Preschool, Laurelhurst Elementary

The Evergreen School Shoreline

The Little School, Seattle Girls School, Hamilton International Middle School

The Villa Academy

UCDS; University Prep

university child development school

University Child Development School (UCDS) in the U-district at 50th and Roosevelt.

Villa Academy

Villa Academy
Roosevelt High School

Villa Academy, Kidsplace

Villa, Holy Names

Village Children's Center  206-434-1482

Washington Middle School

Washington Middle School.
The Meridian School (private)

 

 

Question 5:  Write-In Classes or Activities:

 

  • adult fitness classes

  • adult tennis flights

  • Alki Beach House is hosting puppet shows (snap dragon in Jan. 2007). Bizzy Bodies Yoga also comes to schools,
    community centers, etc, and does yoga for kids.

  • Amanda's clay classes!

  • archetecture tours, house tours, meet your neighbors (tea?), mother/daughter tea

  • ballet for tots, adult pilates, pre-k & K art

  • Basketball. Why did the CC not build a new court?
    Tennis

  • Bridge Lessons

  • cake decorating, cookie decorating (sur la table)

  • Cardio Kickboxing - Meadowbrook

  • circuit training

  • circuit training -- area gyms
    belly dancing

  • Circuit training, Seattle Tennis Club

  • Community chorus

  • Cooking classes for kids (7 - 9) and Jr High.

  • CPR/first aid, money mgmt

  • dance for children, Karate for children

  • financial planning, home repairs, ballroom dancing, free weight training

  • How to play a harmonica  class Magnussen Park

  • I am interested in Tai Chi for adults. There is a tai chi class at the Sandpoint
    community center, although I have not heard "raves" about the teacher...it seems to be
    a popular class.

  • I don't know if this is offered elsewhere, but I would be interested in break dancing
    and hip hop for adults.

  • I would enjoy an exercise class, I have no idea what classes were offered

  • I would like to get the pottery classes back that Amanda taught

  • I would love to see Spanish classes for my children and yoga classes for me.

  • In general, I would be interested in a knitting class for adults (to learn to make
    sweaters, hats, etc.) and art, music, dance classes for toddlers.

  • infant and adult cpr classes, bi-annual babysitter's training, a neighborhood fun run.

  • Instructional Basketball for 6-7 age group (before Rec teams begin).

  • investment tips for seniors (experimental college)

  • It would be great to have teen only events - such as dances, charity work (ie. clean-
    up day), etc.  Hip hop dance classes would also be nice.

  • It would be nice to have adult classes offered in the evening or weekends for working
    parents to participate.

  • Karate classes with Mr. Herman at LCC.

  • kids preschool yoga

  • low-impact aerobics for women 6:30-8pm (used to be offered)

  • Meadowbrook kids summer camp

  • Music pgm for toddlers (Magnuson) Dance pgm for toddlers, Karate for Kids/Tweens

  • Neighborhood preschool

  • open gym for 1-3 y olds

  • Open Gym for Toddlers such as at Magnusun and Miller Com Centers.  Also have enjoyed
    the concerts at the ampitheater at Magnusun - esp when they were at lunchtime during
    the week in summer

  • Open gym for volleyball.

  • pilates

  • Pilates
    Yoga

  • Pilates
    Yoga
    Tennis Team for Youth

  • Pottery for middle school and high school students

  • Puppet Shows and G-Rated Movies, Dance Performers shown at Magnusun Park

  • Qi Gong, TIA Exercise Class, Basketball Camp, Fencing

  • Salsa/Swing Dance Instruction for  teens and adults
    Nature Classes for children
    Watercolor or art classes for children

  • scrapbooking days/nights

  • Senior Aerobics
    Senior Yoga
    Trips to plays, museums, etc.
    Art classes

  • senior self-defense (was at Ravenna)

  • spanish class

  • Spanish for toddlers/kids - teacher Sol Fernandez at Magnuson and Ravenna

  • swing/ballroom dance classes, bridge

  • Tai-chi for middle-aged, creaky, out-of-shape people...

  • Tap dance, lifetime learning center

  • tennis flights; open gym hours; yoga or fitness classes during the day (not early morning or after school hours)

  • tennis for 5 and 6 yo

  • Tiny Tots

  • we enjoy the art/play class and music class

  • We need more program options on the weekends during the school year, mid-week and
    weekends during summer.

    Kids tennis lessons would be nice.

  • We really like the Play Room for infants and toddlers at the Ravenna/Eckstein center.

  • yoga