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The school is named after nearby Guajome County Park. The word "Guajome" comes from a Luiseño word meaning "frog pond", and the school's mascot is a frog.

History

Guajome Park Academy was founded in 1994 by a group of teachers and parents, and was headed by "C.E.O." (Chief Educational Officer) Sandy Williams (later Sandy Williams-Angle). In its first year, Guajome had no campus of its own, and met at a nearby middle school. The following year, a campus in northern Vista was opened, featuring temporary buildings. In 1997, the school opened a secondary campus in downtown Vista called the Vista Village Learning Plaza, which at various times has housed the high school program and an alternative education program called the Expeditionary Learning Center (ELC). In 2004, after nearly ten years of waiting, a permanent campus opened at the main campus site, with two-story buildings, a gymnasium, and an amphitheater, none of which the school had ever had.[2] Soon after, the Vista Village Learning Plaza was closed and the ELC was relocated to the main campus.

Although Guajome has never been a private school, in its early years prospective students and their parents were required to interview with the dean. As the school's population increased, this became less practical and was abandoned. In recent years, especially following administrative changes in 2003, there has been increasing controversy surrounding what some critics say is a break from the school's original vision of small classroom sizes and a project-based, integrated curriculum. This, coupled with accusations of improper governing practices, has led to a great deal of friction between members of the newer administration and faculty members who have taught at the school longer. In response to this, a message board called "Guajome Underground" was created, which chronicles the turmoil and was the subject of an article in the North County Times, a regional newspaper.[3]

Campus

The current campus is located near the northern border of Vista, at the intersection of North Santa Fe and Museum Way. It is within walking distance of the Antique Gas and Steam Engine Museum, Rancho Guajome Adobe, and Guajome County Park; students often take field trips to these locations, and the high school graduations are held at the adobe. The school itself has three two-story buildings, a one-story building, a gymnasium, an amphitheater, and a ropes course, the latter of which is also rented out to other organizations.

Extracurricular activities

Guajome's sports teams compete in soccer, cross country, track, softball, baseball, basketball, vollyball, wrestling, and golf. The school also participates in the Science Olympiad.

In addition to its competitive teams, the school also has a choir called "Sound Splash", and a drama club that performs plays.

Guajome is a member of the German-American Partnership Program and has been partnered with Gymnasium Ulricianum Aurich in Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany since 1995.

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