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Enicintas Schools
The Encinitas Union School District serves the City of Encinitas and the La Costa area of Carlsbad in North San Diego County. Approximately 5,600 students in K-6th grade are enrolled in the District's nine schools encompassing ten different sites. All of the District's schools have been recognized as California Distinguished Schools, and La Costa Heights School and Olivenhain Pioneer have been recognized as National Blue Ribbon Schools. The District serves a diverse and varied community. The student population is approximately 15% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 80 % Caucasian, and 3% other minorities.
All three Encinitas districts (Encinitas USD, San Dieguito UHSD, and Cardiff USD) consistently rate high in the state and county for their student test scores and academic and supplemental programs. Scores on the SAT9 test place the districts far above the county average in all subjects.
Elementary schools
Ada Harris Elementary School
Cardiff Elementary School
Capri Elementary School
Encinitas Country Day School (private)
Flora Vista Elementary School
Ocean Knoll Elementary School
Olivenhain Pioneer Elementary School
Park Dale Lane Elementary School
Paul Ecke Central Elementary School
The Rhoades School (private)
Saint John The Evangelist School (private)
Sanderling Waldorf School (private)
Middle schools
Oak Crest Middle School
Diegueño Middle School
Encinitas Country Day School (private Middle School)
Grauer school (private)
High schools
San Dieguito Academy
La Costa Canyon High School
Grauer School (Private, college preparatory)
Sunset Continuation High School
Pacific Academy
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Encinitas History
The first inhabitants of Encinitas were Indians called the San Dieguitos, the La Jollans, and the Dieguenos. It was the Diegueno's group who were mission converts and helped to build the Spanish Missions. In 1669, the Governor of Baja California, Gaspar de Portola, led an expedition throughout the San Diego and Monterey areas. His mission was to build several "presidios," establishing a teaching base for schools and religion. When the expedition made its way through Encinitas on the El Camino Real, he named the area for the small oak trees on the surrounding hills. He named this area "Encina Canada," Spanish for "Hills of Live Oaks." The area changed governmental hands from Spain to Mexico and in the 1800-s the Mexican government issued land grants to ranchers who would establish settlements in the San Diego area and who were willing to be under Mexico's rule.
In 1881, Jabez Pitcher settled in Encinitas and is considered to be the father of the town. Pitcher came to San Diego and filed a claim for 160 acres on a mesa near the railroad tracks where the Encinitas Civic Center is now located. In 1870, a few miles north of the railroad tracks, English spiritualists named their settlement Leucadia after one of the Greek Isles. The name means "Isle of Paradise" or "Place of Shelter." The five-acre tracts were named after Greek gods and mythical figures.
The City of Encinitas is now made up of five communities that take pride in their own distinct personalities. "Historic Encinitas" fills the Highway 101 Corridor that parallels the beautiful beaches and ocean. "New Encinitas" centers on El Camino Real ("The Kings Highway" founded by the early missionaries from Spain). "Cardiff-by-the-Sea" is made up of quaint homes dotting the hillsides overlooking the sea. "Leucadia" is famous for its giant eucalyptus trees that line the main thoroughfare on the Coast Highway. "Olivenhain" (which means "olive grove" in German) boasts plenty of open horse country, pastures, and a rural way of life.
Encintas is hip, coastal community located on the coast in North San Diego County, adjacent to the Pacific Ocean to the west and is surrounded by the Batiquitos Lagoon and Carlsbad to the north, the San Elijo Lagoon and Solana Beach to the south, and Rancho Santa Fe to the east. Residential real estate in Encinitas is diverse offering condominiums, townhomes, twin-homes and duplexes ranging from the $300Ks to $1M+. Detached, single family homes ranging from the $500Ks to multimillion dollar luxury estates, and ocean front homes perched on the bluff with some of the finest ocean views in the world. Encinitas is home to many wonderful attractions including Swami's beach, considered one of the best surfing beaches in the world, The Sefl Realization Fellowship, expansive poinsettia fields, and independent fruit groves and farms.
