Canyon Crest Academy

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Official name	Canyon Crest Academy
Established	2004
Principal	David Jaffe
Location	5951 Village Center Loop Road San Diego, California
Website	http://www.sduhsd.net/cc/
Enrollment	1400 students
Mascot	Raven
School Colors	Aztec Red and Black
District	San Dieguito Union High School District	Magnet School	Yes, on arts and technology

Canyon Crest Academy (founded 2004) is a public high school of choice in the San Dieguito Unified High School District. Located in Carmel Valley, just down the road from Cathedral Catholic High School and Torrey Pines High School, CCA has a strong focus on technology and the arts. Current enrollment (2006-2007) is around 1400 students, with ninth, tenth and eleventh grade students only. In the 2007-8 school year, the school will be complete with a senior class, and enrollment will peak at about 1750. In March 2007, the first lottery was held to determine which students who had applied to Canyon Crest for the 2007-8 school year would be admitted. This year's about 4 out of 5 students who applied to Canyon Crest to be freshmen next year were chosen, at random, in the lottery. One unique aspect of Canyon Crest is Envision, an arts program with 6 divisions: Digital/Fine Arts, Theater, Video/Film, Dance, Vocal Music, and Instrumental Music. The program regularly performs shows and interacts with the North County creative community. Students also have the option of taking classes from Miracosta Community College at the CCA campus, after school. Canyon Crest uses a 4x4 class schedule instead of the more common rotating block schedule, which means that students can complete 8 classes a year, rather than 6. The current student to teacher ratio (overall) is roughly 34:1. This year's API score was the highest in San Diego County. In 2007, the College Board announced that CCA's class of 2008 led the nation in AP World History scores for schools of its size. The AP World History teacher was Mark Van Over. As of 2007, the school principal is Mr. David Jaffe. As decided by a vote of the first student body, the school's colors are red and black, and the mascot is a raven. Although Canyon Crest Academy sponsors many sports teams, there is no football team, and there are no plans to add one. Demographics: Canyon Crest Academy is largely an upper class school, drawing from the neighborhoods of Carmel Valley, Rancho Santa Fe, and the cities of Del Mar, Solana Beach and Encinitas.

The Mascot: Canyon Crest Academy's first freshman class (class of 2008) originally voted a black panther as the mascot. However, the mascot was soon changed due to the simliar mascot and school colors of a nearby school. And thus, the Canyon Crest Academy Raven, provided with the name "Rupert" by student Yael Kent, was born. The Raven logo was originally illustrated by student Gary Kallenberg. Once a week, the Associated Student Body at Canyon Crest rewards the second-period class with the most school spirit a raven puppet. Traditionally, this raven is kidnapped by an English class each spring. This was begun by Mr. Black in 2005 and continued by Mrs. Duncan in 2006.