El Camino Fundamental High School
| El Camino Fundamental High School | |
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| Address | |
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4300 El Camino Avenue Sacramento, California 95821 United States |
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| Coordinates | 38°36′34″N 121°21′43″W / 38.60953°N 121.36184°WCoordinates: 38°36′34″N 121°21′43″W / 38.60953°N 121.36184°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1951 |
| School district | San Juan Unified School District |
| Principal | Shelley Friery |
| Team name | Eagles |
| Website | http://www.sanjuan.edu/ElCamino.cfm |
El Camino Fundamental High School is a 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.
The school offers Advanced Placement courses in Chemistry, English, Government, Psychology, Physics, Biology, Calculus, Statistics, French and Spanish.
El Camino Fundamental High School has four 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.
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. EPI is for the students who like doing hands on learning. The students also can take Radio and TV as their EPI class. Which gives them a chance to be a part of Low Down, or El Camino's radio station.
El Camino won the Sacramento County Academic Decathlon back-to-back in 1984 and 1985. The 1989 and 1990 year teams are widely regarded as the best El Camino ever fielded.
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.
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