El Camino Fundamental High School

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El Camino Fundamental High School
Location
El Camino Fundamental High School
4300 El Camino Avenue

Arden-Arcade
,
Sacramento County
,
California
95873

United States
Coordinates 38°36′34″N121°21′43″W / 38.60953°N 121.36184°W / 38.60953; -121.36184
Information
School type Public, high school
Established1951;74 years ago (1951)
School district San Juan Unified School District
PrincipalEvelyn Welborn
Teaching staff55.94 (FTE) [1]
Gender Coeducational
Enrollment1,296 (2023-2024) [1]
Student to teacher ratio23.17 [1]
Colors  Kelly Green
  White
  Black [2]
AthleticsBaseball • basketball • cross country • football • golf • soccer • softball • swimming • tennis • track & field • volleyball • water polo • wrestling
Athletics conferenceGolden Empire League
Mascot Eagle
NewspaperThe Eagle Eye
YearbookThe Aerie
Website www.sanjuan.edu/ElCamino
Last updated: August 17, 2024;15 months ago (2024-08-17)

El Camino Fundamental High School is a public high school in Arden-Arcade, California, near Sacramento. It is part of the San Juan Unified School District. Built in 1951 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.

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Curriculum

The school offers Advanced Placement courses. [3]

El Camino Band

El Camino Fundamental High School has four academic bands and one Pep Band.

El Camino Choir

Choral Director David Vanderbout, a 2005 graduate of El Camino High School, led the school's choirs from 2012 to 2022. He led a beginning choir, and intermediate choir, and an advanced Jazz choir. He has since left to teach at Jesuit High School.

El Camino Theatre

El Camino Fundamental High School offers two theatrical classes, Beginning, and Advanced Drama. [4] The program has also put on 3 productions every year while offering students the option of being a part of the cast or crew.

EPI (Eagle Polytechnic Institute)

[4] The EPI program is for 10th-12th students who wish to have a different high school experience. EPI is a California Partnership Academy that runs as a School within a School format. EPI students share 2-4 classes with each other every year. These classes strive to feature cross-curricular core content and activities focused around manufacturing and engineering.

Academic Decathlon

El Camino won the Sacramento County Academic Decathlon back-to-back in 1984 and 1985. [5]

Sports

Several El Camino Fundamental High School's has numerous sports teams. [6] The school competes in the Golden Empire League.

Principals

Randy Holcomb, formerly the principal of Foothill Ranch Middle School in Sacramento, CA is the current principal of the school. Shelley Friery, formerly a vice principal of the school, served as principal until 2017, having served since 2013. Jill Spears, formerly a vice principal at the school, was the principal until 2013, having served since 2010. Michael Stockdale, formerly a vice principal at Woodcreek High School in Roseville, CA was the principal from 2007 to 2010. Ernest Boone, formerly the principal at River City High School in West Sacramento, CA and Vacaville High School in Vacaville, CA was the principal of El Camino from 1993 to 2007.

Notable alumni

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Search for Public Schools - El Camino Fundamental High (063462005776)". National Center for Education Statistics . Institute of Education Sciences . Retrieved December 22, 2024.
  2. ↑ "El Camino Athletics". MaxPreps. CBS Interactive. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Advanced Placement - El Camino Fundamental High School". elcamino.sanjuan.edu. Retrieved November 29, 2025.
  4. 1 2 "Course Catalog - El Camino Fundamental High School". elcamino.sanjuan.edu. Retrieved November 29, 2025.
  5. ↑ "Sacramento County Academic Decathlon: Champions". www.scoe.net. Sacramento County Office of Education. Archived from the original on February 23, 2019. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
  6. ↑ "Athletics - El Camino Fundamental High School". elcamino.sanjuan.edu. Retrieved November 29, 2025.
  7. ↑ "Jessica Chastain Dropped Out of High School, Was a "Terrible Student"". Us Weekly . January 8, 2015. Archived from the original on February 23, 2019. Retrieved February 23, 2019– via Yahoo! Entertainment.
  8. ↑ "Laura Ingle". sanjuaneducationfoundation.org. San Juan Education Foundation. Retrieved February 23, 2019. Laura Ingle is a graduate of El Camino High School.
  9. ↑ Basofin, Pete (August 21, 2011). "In History's Spotlight: Larry Linville". The Sacramento Bee . Archived from the original on July 26, 2013. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
    • a "Born in Ojai, Linville moved to Sacramento and graduated from El Camino High School." — ¶ 2.
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