El Camino High School (Oceanside, California)

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El Camino High School
Address
400 Rancho Del Oro Drive Oceanside, CA

Oceanside, California

United States
Information
TypePublic
Established1975
School districtOceanside Unified School District
PrincipalEileen Frazier [1]
Faculty144
Teaching staff113.79 (FTE)[2]
Enrollment2,958 (2018–19)[2]
Student to teacher ratio26.00[2]
Color(s)   
Brown and gold
AthleticsCIF San Diego Section, Avocado West League
MascotWildcat
RivalOceanside High School
Newspaperthe sun
Websitewww.oside.us/echs

El Camino High School is one of two high schools of the Oceanside Unified School District, located at 400 Rancho Del Oro Drive in Oceanside, California. Declared a California Distinguished School in the early 2000s, it was originally named "Oceanside High School East", and officially became El Camino High School in 1976. El Camino's Truax Theatre was built in the early 1980s and houses a large performance venue, an adjacent classroom with stage and large music and drama rooms. It also recently built a new Science and Technology Building and is undergoing constant construction to clean up the campus. El Camino maintains a close athletic rivalry with Oceanside High School. The ECHS mascot is the "Wildcat" and the school colors are brown and gold.

Notable alumni

Media attention

In 1986, a group of Christian students found two dozen books on sorcery and satanism in the school's library and asked the Oceanside Unified School District board to ban the volumes. A committee of teachers and administrators assisted by the ACLU San Diego chapter appealed to the First Amendment and the students' request was rejected.[3]

The school drew national media attention in June 2008 for staging a controversial fake car accident, telling students their classmates had died as part of an anti-drunk driving program called "Every 15 Minutes--Extreme". "Many seniors from all walks of life were included in the program to show the wide reach and seriousness of drunk driving" said Greg Vargas one of the dead seniors.[4][5][6][7][8]

References

  1. ^ "El Camino High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "El Camino High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
  3. ^ Bailey, Eric (July 3, 1986). "Panel Rejects Plea to Purge Sorcery Texts in Oceanside". Los Angeles Times. Oceanside. Archived from the original on May 16, 2020. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
  4. ^ Baram, Marcus (June 6, 2008). "Scared Straight or Scared Stiff: Do Alcohol Awareness Programs Sometimes Go Too Far?". ABC News. Retrieved May 22, 2011.
  5. ^ Video clip of ABC interview[dead link]
  6. ^ The Associated Press: Teachers defend shock tactics in DWI program Archived June 17, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Nova Scotia News - TheChronicleHerald.ca[dead link]
  8. ^ "A School Fakes Death - Bad Idea Doesn't Help A Bad Problem". Dailynews-record.com. June 14, 2008. Archived from the original on July 8, 2011. Retrieved May 22, 2011.

Coordinates: 33°13′7.1″N 117°19′2.3″W / 33.218639°N 117.317306°W / 33.218639; -117.317306

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