Education
Escondido is served by the Escondido Union School District, the Escondido Union High School District, and the San Pasqual Union School District. The city has 19 elementary, five middle, and seven high schools.
Public high schools:
- Escondido High School
- Orange Glen High School
- San Pasqual High School
- Classical Academy High School
- Escondido Charter High School
- Center City High School
- Valley High School
Middle schools:
- Bear Valley Middle School
- Del Dios Middle School
- Hidden Valley Middle School
- Mission Middle School
- Rincon Middle School
Elementary Schools
- Bernardo Elementary
- Central Elementary
- Classical Academy
- Coastal Academy
- Conway Elementary
- Farr Avenue Elementary
- Felicita Elementary
- Glen View Elementary
- Heritage K-8 Charter
- Juniper Elementary
- L. R. Green Elementary
- Lincoln Elementary
- Miller Elementary
- Nicolaysen Community Day
- North Broadway Elementary
- Oak Hill Elementary
- Orange Glen Elementary
- Pioneer Elementary
- Reidy Creek Elementary
- Rock Springs Elementary
- Rose Elementary
There is a wide range of API scores for Escondido schools, reflecting the demographic diversity of the city. As of 2009, two elementary schools in the district scored above the 80th percentile of all schools in the state, and nine elementary schools scored below the 20th percentile.
The Escondido Public Library system consists of the Main Branch, the East Valley Branch, Pioneer Room, Computer Center, and a bookmobile.
Read more about this topic: Escondido, California
Famous quotes containing the word education:
“How to attain sufficient clarity of thought to meet the terrifying issues now facing us, before it is too late, is ... important. Of one thing I feel reasonably sure: we can’t stop to discuss whether the table has or hasn’t legs when the house is burning down over our heads. Nor do the classics per se seem to furnish the kind of education which fits people to cope with a fast-changing civilization.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“A good education ought to help people to become both more receptive to and more discriminating about the world: seeing, feeling, and understanding more, yet sorting the pertinent from the irrelevant with an ever finer touch, increasingly able to integrate what they see and to make meaning of it in ways that enhance their ability to go on growing.”
—Laurent A. Daloz (20th century)
“We find that the child who does not yet have language at his command, the child under two and a half, will be able to cooperate with our education if we go easy on the “blocking” techniques, the outright prohibitions, the “no’s” and go heavy on “substitution” techniques, that is, the redirection or certain impulses and the offering of substitute satisfactions.”
—Selma H. Fraiberg (20th century)