El Camino Real High School
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El Camino Real High School
| Principal | Dave Fehte |
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| Established | 1969 |
| School type | Public |
| Location | Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California |
| Enrollment | < 4,000 |
| Campus | Suburban |
| School colors | Royal blue and camel |
| Nicknames | Conquistadores |
| Website | Official website |
El Camino Real High School (also known locally as "ECR" and by some more recently as "ELCO") is a public secondary school located in the Woodland Hills district of the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California. It operates within the Los Angeles Unified School District.
The school, founded in 1969, was designed to emulate a small college campus, with a large central "quad" and an open campus policy.
ECR serves portions of Woodland Hills and West Hills and also maintains a sizable "traveling" student population from other areas of the district.
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[edit] Athletics
El Camino Real's girls soccer team has won 7 CIF Los Angeles City Section Championships in a row (2001-2007).
El Camino Real's boys tennis team, coached by Marvin Jones, gained notoriety by winning five consecutive city championships from 2000-2004. In the late 1970s, El Camino Real was noted for its marching band, which won four of the first six Los Angeles City Marching Band championships (1976, 1977, 1979, 1980).
[edit] Academic Competitions
[edit] Academic Decathlon Team
El Camino Real High School has a popular and successful Academic Decathlon team. The team won its first competition under then coach Mark Johnson, taking home the Los Angeles City title in 1989-1990. They would later go on to finish 2nd that year at the State Competition. The team has remained successful in competition, and has won National titles in 1998, 2001, 2004, and 2005. With their fourth national title in 2005, the team recorded back-to-back national titles, the first for any school in 20 years. The 2005 team was the first in Academic Decathlon history to win state and national competitions as a wild card team, when they lost the city competition but were allowed to continue as a wild card. In 2006, the team was not able to win the city competition, but entered into the state competition as a wild card.In a significant drop from previous years, El Camino was not able to win the State Competition.There is much speculation as to why the team failed. They lost to cross-town rival Taft High School, while still garnering the second highest score in the nation. El Camino Real's four national titles ranks second to J.J Pearce from Richardson, Texas which claims five wins.
[edit] Model UN Competition
The school's Model United Nations Team earned awards in 1976 and 1977 at the Model UN competitions at the University of California-Riverside and the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA). The teams were headed by Social Studies Department teachers Kenneth Craft and Murray Shapiro. Participants in the program during this time period included noted Bay Area attorney Michael A. Futterman and Austin, Texas semiconductor and software executive Alan R. Weiss.
[edit] Science Bowl
El Camino's Science Bowl team competes at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power region. In 2001 the team placed 4th in the Los Angeles region, 2nd in 2006, and 3rd in 2007.
[edit] Envirothon
El Camino has also won the Envirothon regional competition 7 consecutive years in a row placing 2 teams last year at the State division at 2nd place and 5th place. El Camino's 2006 Envirothon team placed first in the entire state, and went on to place fourth in the nationals competition in Canada.
[edit] JETS (Junior Engineering Technical Society)
The 2006 El Camino team placed 2nd in regionals.
[edit] JROTC
The school also has a Naval Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps unit. It was established in 1979 and is currently ranked, based on field meet results, the top NJROTC unit in Los Angeles. The program currently has more than 100 cadets enrolled, and this year placed 1st place at the Greater Los Angeles Field Meet and 3rd place at Serra High School Pre-Regional Field Meet and Chaffey High School 6th Annual Tiger Challenge. The unit placed fourth in last year's Area 11 Regional Field Meet but failed to place overall this year in spite of earlier success.
[edit] Baseball
ECR Baseball has been a baseball powerhouse for many years and won its last City Championship in 2005.
[edit] Notable Alumni
- Keith Green: Musician, American gospel songwriter, singer, and pianist.
- Jackie Fox: Musician, bass player for the 1970's girl-group proto-punk heavy-metal rock band The Runaways.
- Brad Garrett: Actor, played Robert Barone on the hit TV sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond.
- Lisa Arch: Actress, MadTV, Dinner and a Movie.
- Conor Jackson: Athlete, MLB First baseman for the Arizona Diamondbacks.
- Brett Gurewitz: Musician, guitarist and co-founder of the punk band Bad Religion.
- Allan Kennedy: Athlete, former San Francisco 49ers football player.
- Christopher Knight: Actor, played Peter Brady on the 1970's hit TV sitcom The Brady Bunch.
- Randy Wolf: Athlete, MLB All-star pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. Now with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
- Jay Ziskrout: Musician, original drummer and co-founder of the punk band Bad Religion.
- Greg Graffin: Musician, lead singer and founder of the punk band Bad Religion.
- Jamal Anderson: Athlete, Pro-Bowl running back for the Atlanta Falcons, helped lead the Falcons to the Super Bowl in 1999.
- Jacob Threadgill: Entrepreneur, co-founder of Youtube.com.
- America Ferrera: Actress, Ugly Betty, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
[edit] External links
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District 1 |
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| Magnet 4-12 schools | Sherman Oaks CES |
| High schools | Birmingham | Canoga Park | Cleveland | El Camino Real | Granada Hills | Kennedy | Monroe | Panorama | Reseda | Taft |
| Alternative high schools | Northridge Academy |
