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. Woodland Hills, California in the foreground, including Warner Center. ... Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: , State California County Los Angeles County Settled 1781 Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type Mayor-Council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ... Woodland Hills, California in the foreground, including Warner Center. ... San Fernando Valley from southwestern edge. ... Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: , State California County Los Angeles County Settled 1781 Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type Mayor-Council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... The Los Angeles Unified School District (the LAUSD) is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. ...

The school, founded in 1969, was designed to emulate a small college campus, with a large central "quad" and an open campus policy. For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ...

ECR serves portions of Woodland Hills and West Hills and also maintains a sizable "traveling" student population from other areas of the district. West Hills is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California. ...

Athletics

El Camino Real's girls soccer team has won 7 CIF Los Angeles City Section Championships in a row (2001-2007).^{[citation needed]}

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, led by Karl Raschkes, which won four of the first six Los Angeles City Marching Band championships (1976, 1977, 1979, 1980).^{[citation needed]}

In the late 70's ECR football was an LA City powerhouse, led by then All City quarterback #11 Jeff (Cap) Caprio. Although short in stature, Cap had a rifle for an arm and was a great leader, he actually had better stats then future Hall of Famer, John Elway (Granada Hills). The defense was led by High School All-American Rich Gray, "The Hulk" as he was known was an unstoppable force, Gray went on to UCLA then Rice University. Caprio went on to Colorado then finished his career at CSUN.^{[citation needed]}

ECR Baseball has been a baseball powerhouse for many years and won its last City Championship in 2005.^{[citation needed]}

El Camino Real's Wrestling Team has also proven itself worhty with all the State Chapinonships won in the 80's and 90's

Academic Competitions

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.^{[citation needed]} 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, 2005, and 2007.^{[citation needed]} 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. El Camino was not able to win the 2006 State Competition, losing to cross-town rival Taft High School, however, they still garnered the second highest score in the nation. El Camino Real's now five national titles stands with J.J Pearce from Richardson, Texas. The United States Academic Decathlon (USAD) is one of the premier academic competitions in the United States. ...

2007 marked records for El Camino Real's Academic Decathlon Team. They have now achieved the 2nd team ever to win as a wild card at State competition, as well as win with siblings from a previous year (Namely, Sam Farahmand and Jiyoung Kim who are the respective siblings of Ben Farahmand and Jihwan Kim of the 2005 National Champions.^{[citation needed]}Moreover, Frank Soberanis currently holds the top Varsity Score, 8,920 of a possible 10000, as of 2007.^{[citation needed]}

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).^{[citation needed]} 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. Binomial name Ucla xenogrammus Holleman, 1993 The largemouth triplefin, Ucla xenogrammus, is a fish of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Ucla, found in the Pacific Ocean from Viet Nam, the Philippines, Palau and the Caroline Islands to Papua New Guinea, Australia (including Christmas Island), and the... Nickname: Location in the state of Texas Coordinates: , Country United States State Texas Counties Travis County Government  - Mayor Will Wynn Area  - City  296. ... Computer industry expert on Benchmark (computing) and founder of the EEMBC Certification Laboratory, an independent third party that certifies the benchmark scores for the industry-standard consortium known as EEMBC. Alan R. Weiss is also a Libertarian political activist, former Vice President and Organizer of the Free State Project, was...

Science Bowl

El Camino Real'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. Science Bowl is a high school academic competition, similar to Quiz Bowl, held in the United States. ... Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest municipal utility in the United States, serving 3. ...

Envirothon

El Camino Real 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. The Envirothon is a nationwide high school environmental competition in the United States and in Canada wherein teams of five students are tested on five categories including: Forestry, Soils/Land Use, Aquatics, Wildlife and a rotating current environmental issue. ...

JETS (Junior Engineering Technical Society)

The Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS) Team was founded in 2005 by Kieran Gupta. JETS promotes interest in engineering, science, math, and technology in high school students and provides them with real-world engineering teamwork and problem-solving experiences. The Team participates in the JETS-TEAMS (Test of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics, and Science) Competition that occurs annually in March and is hosted and sponsored by the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC).

In 2006, the ECR JETS Team (captain: Kieran Gupta; coach: Sarvenaz Morshedi) won 2nd place at the Southern California Regional Varsity Competition, missing First Place to Beverly Hills High School by one point.

In 2007, the ECR JETS Team (captain: Kieran Gupta; coach: Sue Schuster) again won 2nd place at the Southern California Regional Varsity Competition, increasing their score significantly by 7 points but once again missing First Place to Beverly Hills High School by only one point.

In 2008, the ECR JETS Team (co-captains: Jillian Cohn and Karen Shein; coach: Sue Schuster) will participate in the TEAMS Competition and will challenge Beverly Hills High School for the First Place title.

JROTC

The school also has a Naval Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps unit. It was established in 1979 and was ranked, based on field meet results, the top NJROTC unit in Los Angeles until 2007 when cross-town rival Reseda NJROTC defeated El Camino at the annual Area 11 Superbowl and moving onto the National championships in Pensacola, Florida. The program currently has 84 cadets enrolled, and in 2006 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 4th in last year's Area 11 Regional Field Meet but failed to place overall this year despite earlier success. The Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (JROTC) is a program sponsored by the United States Armed Forces in high schools across the nation that train high school students in leadership and military sciences. ...

Fine Arts

ECR also has two notable choral groups, under the direction of Terrence Fischer for the last 15 years. These groups consist of the El Camino Real Girls Choir, an SSAA choir composed of girls from freshman to senior year, and the Camerata, an SATB choir composed of mostly juniors and seniors. Both groups have achieved considerable success. In 2007, the girls choir performed Stephen Paulus' Songs of Meditation with several other womens choirs, a production by MidAmerica Productions. It was only the second performance of the piece with an orchestra, originally comissioned by the Tuscon Boys Choir. This summer, Camerata will be traveling to Lucerne, Italy, to perform.

ECR is also renowned for his drama program, cited as one of LAUSD's finest theatre programs. The drama department is currently run by Ms. Sue Freitag.

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.^{[citation needed]}
• 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.
• 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.
• Greg Graffin: Musician, lead singer and founder of the punk band Bad Religion.
• Jay Bentley: Musician, bassist and co-founder of the punk band Bad Religion.
• Brett Gurewitz: Musician, guitarist and co-founder of the punk band Bad Religion; founder, owner and C. E. O. of Epitaph Records.
• Jay Ziskrout: Musician, original drummer and co-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.
• America Ferrera: Actress, Ugly Betty, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
• Jesse James Hollywood: Arrested for murder and awaiting trial, subject of the feature film Alpha Dog.
• Christopher Mintz-Plasse: Actor in Superbad.

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External links

• El Camino Real High School
• El Camino Real Naval JROTC
• El Camino Real Drama Department