El Camino Fundamental High School
| El Camino Fundamental High School | |
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| Address | |
| 4300 El Camino Avenue Sacramento, California, 95821 United States |
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| Established | 1951 |
| Principal | Jill Spears |
| Website | http://www.sanjuan.edu/ElCamino.cfm |
El Camino Fundamental High School is an American public high school in Sacramento, California in the San Juan Unified School District. Built in 1950 as El Camino High School, "Fundamental" was added to the name in the late 1970s to signify the school's intention to focus upon basic (fundamental) characteristics of successful schools, in particular a return to a strong disciplinary emphasis, a stripped-down college preparatory curriculum, and a contract-supported, enroll-through-application-only process.
Academically, as measured by their Academic Performance Index, El Camino finally broke the important "800" barrier in 2009 after two years of changes implemented by its former principal, Mike Stockdale. El Camino has continually met the requirements of the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) outlined under No Child Left Behind mandates, since their inception.
El Camino has, for some years, participated with the state's "California Partnership Academy" program through the Eagle Polytechnic Institute (EPI) which focuses on engineering.
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[edit] Curriculum
The school offers Advanced Placement courses in Chemistry, English, Government, Psychology, Physics, and Spanish.
[edit] El Camino Band
El Camino Fundamental High School has three academic bands and one Pep Band. All four bands are under the leadership of Band Director Kevin Glaser, who has been teaching at the school since 1994, was a News 10 KXTV Teacher of the Month in 2007, and has made the EC (El Camino) band program what it is today.
[edit] EPI (Eagle Polytechnic Institute)
The EPI program is for students who wish to get a career in the engineering field. They offer classes in engineering for every year. Students take Engineering 1 their sophomore year, and advance through their senior year.
[edit] Academic Decathlon
El Camino won the Sacramento County Academic Decathlon back-to-back in 1984 and 1985.
[edit] Sports
Several El Camino Fundamental High School's sports teams at one point were ranked nationally including the El Camino E-gals dance/drill team who won the UNITED Spirit associAtion's national competition in the dance/drill category in 2004. The school competes in the Capital Athletic League.
[edit] Principals
Jill Spears, formerly a vice principal at the school is currently the principal having served since 2010. Michael Stockdale, formerly a vice principal at Woodcreek High School in Roseville, CA served from 2007-2010. Ernest Boone, formerly the principal at River City High School in West Sacramento, CA and Vacaville High School in Vacaville, CA served as principal at El Camino from 1993-2007.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Mike Burton - Olympic gold medalist swimmer
- Phil Isenberg - State Assemblyman and former Sacramento Mayor
- Claude "Butch" Lee Edge - former MLB pitcher
- Derrek Lee (1993) - first baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates
- Larry Linville - Major Frank Burns in the television series M*A*S*H
- Victor Sanchez - Pro Body Builder for the IFBB
- Sali Lopez - Libero Volleyball Player for Team Mexico
- Victor Kim - Member of Quest Crew, Winners of MTV's 3rd season of America's Best Dance Crew
- Kate Levering - Actress
- Malati Dasi (Melanie Lee Nagel) - first international female leader of the Hare Krishna movement
- Mandisa- Singer
[edit] External links
- El Camino Fundamental High School official website
- The El Camino Band website
- Sacramento County Academic Decathlon results
