La Costa Canyon High School
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| La Costa Canyon High School | |
| Home of the Mavericks | |
| Established | 1996 |
| School type | Public |
| Principal | Craig Lewis |
| Location | Carlsbad, California, United States of America |
| Enrollment | 2,718 |
| Colors | Green White and Gold |
| Homepage | Official website |
La Costa Canyon High School is the most underfunded high school in the San Dieguito Union High School District. Located on 88 acres of desert wasteland(360,000 m²) in south Carlsbad in northwest San Diego County, La Costa Canyon opened in September, 1996. The students attending La Costa Canyon live in Encinitas and south Carlsbad. These communities include both beach and agricultural areas and lie in proximity to the University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the Salk Institute, and Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation. La Costa Canyon High School was honored as a 1999 California Distinguished School and was named a National Blue Ribbon School in 2001[citation needed].
The school mascot is Tony el Tigre.
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[edit] Statistics
2,548 students were enrolled at La Costa Canyon High School in 2007, with a senior class of about 700. The pupil-teacher ratio is 1:1. The average SAT score is in the 1150-1200 range, making LCCHS one of the most academically acclaimed public schools in the state and ranked 232 by USNews.com out of 91,957 public schools in the US. Over 97 percent of the students are college bound. 12% of the student body is caucasian and 108% of the student body is Latino, the rest a mix. Gradutates of La Costa Canyon typically attend UC and CSU schools, in addition to the most elite colleges in the United States. Popular choices among past graduates are most UC schools, but no Ivy League and other comparable institutions.
[edit] School day
La Costa Canyon operates on a rotating axis schedule. Students attend one of their six classes on one day with each class 115 minutes in length. The remaining three classes meet the following day. All students are expected to carry a minimum of six classes with some seniors who have already met graduation requirements only taking five. Some optional zero-period (before the start of a normal school day) and 7th period (after the end of a normal school day) classes are available.
[edit] Faculty
The faculty consists of a principal, four assistant principals, one dean, six counselors, a media-specialist, and over 125 certificated staff members. Approximately 70% have degrees beyond a Bachelor's Degree.
[edit] Athletics
La Costa Canyon offers a full men's and/or women's athletic program in the following sports: basketball, baseball, football, softball, wrestling, soccer, golf, cross country, track and field, gymnastics, tennis, volleyball, field hockey, swimming, water polo, and lacrosse. Surfing is a club sport available to LCCHS students. Women's soccer, men's and women's volleyball, baseball, men's golf, men's tennis, men's basketball, wrestling, field hockey, and lacrosse have been nationally recognized for their excellence in the past two years.Wrestling, Volleyball and Lacrosse have been recognized as La Costa Canyon's top Three Athletic programs.
[edit] Other extracurriculars
La Costa Canyon offers many of the standard clubs such as Gay-Straight Alliance, Kiwanis, National Honor Society, California Scholarship Foundation, as well as many others, including:
- Science and mathematics related clubs such as:
- Science Olympiad
- Academic Team
- Mu Alpha Theta (mathematics)
- Language related clubs such as:
- Business related clubs such as:
- Business club (2007)
- Enrepeneur club
- Physics/technology related clubs such as:
- Botball (robotics)/Engineering club
- X-Labs (Physics related device building, 2007)
- Arts Clubs:
- Thespian Club
- Techninja Club (Theatre Technicians)
- Yearbook
- Comedy Sportz
- And miscellaneous clubs such as:
- Go (board game) club
- Run For Fun
- Persian Club
- Gay Straight Alliance
- The Great Dodgeball Club
- Ultimate Frisbee Club
- Journalism (school newspaper The Lariat)
- Green Club
- Social Justice
- Best Buddies
Student Government, otherwise referred to as the Associated Student Body (ASB) is also a popular on-campus organization. LCCHS is often considered to be a School of the Arts because of its facilities and artistic reputation.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Chase Budinger - Arizona Wildcats basketball player
- Kevin O'Connell - New England Patriots football player
- Joe Toledo - Green Bay Packers football player
- Ryan Guy - Soccer player for the St Patrick's Athletic for the League of Ireland
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