El Camino High School

Both of my sons have been students at El Camino High School for all four years of their high school education. The first thing that stands out to me is the quality of the faculty and staff. Their care for the school, and more importantly, the students is, in my eyes, extraordinary. I am very impressed with the diversity of the classes, clubs, sports teams and activities that are available to the student, enabling them to receive such a well-​rounded education. Also, there is no replacement in life for the exposure a student can have to the multi-​cultured family of students, faculty and staff there. All in all, I believe El Camino High School does their utmost to provide its students with a rock solid, sure foundation upon which to launch into their future life’s experiences.

Go Wildcats!
It’s EC time! It’s EC time! What! What!
(somewhere Tony A. is laughing because I got school pride!)
My high school experience was pretty complete I would say:
I was a member of the Associated Student Body (ASB…otherwise known as the Student Council).
I was Senior Class President.
I was Cross Country Captain.
I was a 4 year Varsity Cross Country and 3 year Track Athlete.
I was an Honors Student that graduated at the top of my class.
I took Advanced Placement classes and got straight As.
I handled my language requirement by sophomore year (it pays to migrate from peru to southern california when it comes to that).
I went to all the dances, football games, basketball games, theater performances and music recitals!
I was a part of a club called the Black Hat Society where we ate lunch, hung out with our favorite cool teacher, and discussed politics, culture and satanism.
I went to parties and got drunk (but not ever before my junior year).
I dated boys steadily through high school (one looser 1^st semester freshman year, a great guy that now RIP second half of freshman year through junior year, and rob e. senior year).
I built a float for homecoming my senior year. and performed on it as well! (I was catwoman from batman and robyn for our superhero theme).
I got to ditch class all the time because I was in ASB.
I organized, mc’d and participated in pep rally’s.
I went on fieldtrips to major theme parks, including disneyland for grad night.
I organized my prom… and my date was the prom king!
I enjoyed my english courses as well as social science courses, specially history and political science and the teachers who taught them!
EL Camino has a huge campus… 3 different levels from all the way down at the track, to the gym and parking and theater, to the top cafeteria and classes.
EC offered opportunities for those who wanted to take them.
It was a diverse campus with many African American, Filipino, Samoan, Latino, White, etc… students.
That meant, sometimes there was racial tension.
Also, there was some gang violence considering its location and its size.
There were many electives, clubs, and sports to be a member of, as well as after school activities.
Also, plenty of honors and advanced placement classes.
And… its a california distinguished school!
But, like plenty of schools in california, it could have been better!
Could have had newer and cleaner facilities (although they have since opened a spanking new science and math building… which looks exactly the same as our rival’s: Oceanside High School).
Also– some of the administration sucked.
And the lunch food could have been healthier!
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Alma Mater
We pledge our hearts to brown and gold,
the color of the hills and sun.
As people we are many,
but as Wildcats we are one.
Our pride for you is deep within,
our spirit strong and high.
We’ll hail to you dear alma mater,
as the years go by.
Our team will fight with honor,
and strive for victory.
El Camino Wildcats, forever we shall be.