The History of
OCEANSIDE-CARLSBAD HIGH SCHOOL
This is a work in progress, (as
is the entire website). If you have any important dates to add, please
email me at zoe@webdesignbyzoe.com.
I would like to note that most of this information was compiled by Edith Swaim
for the Oceanside Historical Society newsletters and from Oceanside, Where
Life is Worth Living, Kristi S. Hawthorne.
- 1891 School trustees for the Libby,
San Luis Rey, South Oceanside and Oceanside schools to organize a Union High
School District. October 3, 1891, it was reported that "The high school
is now open and ready for pupils."
- 1904 Union High School District dissolved.
- 1906 Oceanside-Carlsbad High School opens in the two
upstairs rooms of the existing Grammar School located on the present site of
Oceanside High School with 20 students.
- 1907 Two bronze statues of President
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln acquired from the San Diego County
courthouse and placed near the entrance of the high school.
- 1909 First graduating class of 5
students:
Marguerite Brannen, Ramona Rieke, Sybil Spencer, Edith Cotterel, and Eunice
Everett.
- 1913 District votes for a $20,000 bond issue to erect
a building of four class rooms, a study hall, a ground floor office and a Home
Economics room in the basement. There were 55 students, a principal and 3
teachers.
- School district included territory south of Encinitas
and extended to the San Diego City limits, including Vista.
- 1920 Science building constructed at a cost of
$17,500. It housed the chemistry, physics, homemaking and girls physical
education classes.
- 1921 5 ½ acres purchased east of the buildings. An
auditorium and double rows of classrooms extending north built at a bonded
cost of $80,000.
- 1925 East wing built including a library. They used
the building as a gymnasium and auditorium.
- 1934 Junior College department added.
- 1935 Earthquake damaged the west wing. Students
attended school in 10 large military type tents with wood floors, but no heat
or electricity.
- 1936-1937 Coastal towns and Vista formed their own
districts except for Carlsbad. New high school built in Encinitas. First
class to graduate from San Dieguito in the La Paloma Theater in 1936.
- 1937 Work completed on west wing.
- 1938 First graduation class of Vista
- 1939 Home Economics building built.
- 1940 Machine and Carpenter shop constructed.
- 1948 New gymnasium built.
- 1949 Locker and shower rooms built.
- 1953 New arts and industrial arts building
constructed.
- 1954 College wing built
- 1955 District library built
- 1957 Carlsbad students had classes in basement of the
OHS.
- 1958 Carlsbad formed their own district. Carlsbad
students moved to the new Carlsbad High School in January.
- May 1965 MiraCosta College was
dedicated in southeast Oceanside.
- 1967 OHS went to split sessions to alleviate
overcrowding.
- 1971 Graduation saw the end of open
campus. Fences installed.
- 1972 January, new Oceanside High School East opened
with Juniors and Seniors attending East and Freshmen and Sophomores attending
West.
- 1976 Oceanside East renamed El Camino High School.
- Friday, Oct. 31, 1986 OHS beat ECHS
for the first time in Varsity football. With Jr. Seau at their helm and
it was a slaughter. It was ECHS first homecoming game on their own
field. (From June
"the mascot" Floyd-Blair)
- March 2000 - $125 million bond issue passed.
- October 2002 - The new, $12 million science and
technology building completed along with the renovated library, courtyard,
administration building.
- March 29, 2006 – Oceanside High, along with El Camino
and the area Middle Schools were closed Thursday and Friday due to student
demonstrations
- April 29, 2006 – The renovated gymnasium is re-dedicated
as the Wally Molifua Memorial Gymnasium.
- April 2006 - The district has given the OK to its
architect to begin drafting plans for a performing arts center that would
feature a 550-seat auditorium, along with classroom spaces for instrumental,
choral and drama classes.
- September 2006 - Oceanside High celebrated it's 100th
anniversary.
- October 20, 2007 - The 2nd Annual Hall of Fame 2007
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