El Capitan High School (California)

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El Capitan High School
Location
El Capitan High School (California)
10410 Ashwood Street

Lakeside
,
San Diego County
,
California
92040

United States
Information
Type Comprehensive high school
Motto Spanish: Ahora Y Siempre
("Now and Always")
Established1959 (1959)
StatusOpen
School district Grossmont Union High School District
NCES District ID 0616230 [1]
CEEB code 051346
NCES School ID 061623002019 [2]
PrincipalScott Goergens
Faculty100
Teaching staff17.05 (FTE) [3]
Employees150
Grades9–12
Enrollment1,830 (2023–2024) [4]
Classes7
Average class size30
Student to teacher ratio107.33 [3]
Color(s)   Black and gold
Nickname Vaqueros
Accreditation Western Association of Schools and Colleges [5]
NewspaperThe El Capitan Horizon
Website elcapitan.guhsd.net

El Capitan High School (commonly known as El Cap) is a public high school in Lakeside, California, United States, a census-designated place in San Diego, and serves students in grades nine through twelve. Opened in 1959, El Capitan is the fifth of twelve high schools to be constructed in the Grossmont Union High School District. El Capitan High School is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. [5]

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History

As of 2008, El Capitan High School is the only high school in the Grossmont Union High School District to feature an agriculture program. [6] In September 2018, construction began on an $11 million event center that included an event space, lobby and concession areas, band room, practice room, dance studio, and drama classroom. [7] The construction of the event center was completed in December 2019. [8]

Rankings

For the 2017–2018 school year, El Capitan High School ranked 9th out of 17 ranked high schools in the district, 13th out of 134 in the San Diego metropolitan area, 801st out of 1,612 in the state of California, and 5,997th out of 17,792 in the United States according to the U.S. News & World Report . [9] For their 2021 rankings, Niche ranked the school 437th among 2,572 California high schools. [10]

Athletics

The school fields teams in the following sports: football, baseball, basketball, cross country, field hockey, golf, soccer, tennis, track & field, volleyball, water polo and wrestling. [11]

In 2014, the varsity football team enjoyed its best performance in school history. After an upset victory against Helix High School, a Division I team, El Capitan finished the regular season undefeated at 10–0. [12] Defeating Mt. Carmel and Brawley, the school would win its first CIF San Diego Section Division II championship in a 14–7 victory against Rancho Bernardo High School. However, El Capitan suffered its first and only defeat of the season in the Division III state championship game when it was defeated 35–28 by Campolindo. [13]

In 2024, although the year began with a rough start, the varsity football team made it back to CIF after defeating the Chula Vista Spartans and the Grossmont Foothillers in the CIF SDS playoffs. They were the number 2 seed in their division, winning a bye week after coming 7-3 in the regular season. In the CIF championship game at Southwestern college, they beat the Westview Wolverines 17-14 to bring home the DIV CIF SDS title. They then beat Silverado (Victorville) at home in Lakeside 33-19, to advance to the state championship game. The 2024 Vaqueros brought home a CIF San Diego trophy as well as the Southern California trophy. They also went undefeated in league games, winning the Grossmont league title, and ending with a final record of 11-4 for the 2024 season.

In 2016, the girls varsity volleyball team finished the season 25–5 and won its first San Diego Section Division III championship. [14]

Students

Academic
year		TotalRace or ethnicity [4]
African
American 		AIAN Asian Filipino Hispanic
or Latino 		Pacific
Islander 		White Multiracial Not
reported
2014–20151,6491.3%1.5%0.4%0.5%25.2%0.2%63.5%6.2%1.2%
2015–20161,5911.7%1.9%0.8%0.4%28.7%0.2%60.2%6.1%0.0%
2016–20171,6001.8%2.0%0.8%0.6%29.9%0.3%59.1%5.6%0.0%
2017–20181,6751.9%1.8%0.9%0.4%32.8%0.3%55.5%6.4%0.0%
2018–20191,6592.2%2.2%1.0%0.8%29.4%0.2%59.0%5.2%0.0%
2019–20201,6492.8%2.8%1.4%1.1%25.0%0.2%61.8%4.9%0.0%

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for Grossmont Union High". National Center for Education Statistics . Institute of Education Sciences . Retrieved September 6, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Search for Public Schools - El Capitan High (061623002019)". National Center for Education Statistics . Institute of Education Sciences . Retrieved December 16, 2024.
  3. 1 2 "El Capitan High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 16, 2024.
  4. 1 2 "Enrollment Multi-Year Summary by Ethnicity". California Department of Education. Retrieved January 25, 2020.
  5. 1 2 "Accrediting Commission for Schools, Western Association of Schools & Colleges - ACS WASC - Directory of Schools". Archived from the original on November 9, 2014. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
  6. ↑ "School spotlight: El Capitan High School". U-T San Diego . February 28, 2008. Retrieved September 6, 2012.
  7. ↑ "Construction of El Capitan High School's new event center underway". The East County Californian. September 12, 2018. Retrieved January 25, 2020.
  8. ↑ Marquez, Yvonne (December 16, 2019). "Construction Completed on El Capitan High School's Events Center". Spaces4Learning. Retrieved January 25, 2020.
  9. ↑ "El Capitan High". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
  10. ↑ "El Capitan High School". Niche. Archived from the original on December 12, 2020. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
  11. ↑ "El Capitan High School Athletics". guhsd.net. Retrieved October 18, 2014.
  12. ↑ Maffei, John (November 10, 2014). "El Capitan moves up preps FB rankings". UTSanDiego.com. U-T San Diego . Retrieved April 8, 2015.
  13. ↑ Kenney, Kirk (December 20, 2014). "El Capitan loses a heartbreaker". UTSanDiego.com. Carson: U-T San Diego . Retrieved April 8, 2015.
  14. ↑ Brents, Phillip (November 23, 2016). "El Capitan girls' volleyball season with Division III CIF championship". The East County Californian. Retrieved January 25, 2020.
  15. ↑ "Family and friends remember Ashli Babbitt". January 8, 2021.

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