Temescal Canyon High School - Lake Elsinore, California/CA

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Temescal Canyon High School

28755 El Toro Rd., Lake Elsinore, CA, 92532-1912 -

tel: (951)245-4484
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Definition of Terms

Temescal Canyon High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Riverside County, CA

Students & Faculty

Total Students

2212 students

% Male / % Female

51% / 49%

Total Classroom Teachers

87 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 464 students

Grade 10 - 460 students

Grade 11 - 666 students

Grade 12 - 564 students

Grade Not Listed - 58 students

This School

(CA) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:25

1:20

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(CA) School Average

% American Indian	1%	n/a
% Asian	4%	11%
% Hispanic	32%	50%
% Black	5%	7%
% White	57%	28%
% Unknown	1 %	4%

Additional Student Information

This School

(CA) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

15%

44%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

10%

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

(CA) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Lake Elsinore Unified School District

This School's Agency

(CA) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	25	4
Number of Students Managed	20,652 students	1,760 students
District Total Revenue	$176,937,000	$14,612,000
District Expenditure	$218,100,000	$15,326,000
District Revenue / Student	$8,568	$7,880
District Expenditure / Student	$10,561	$7,807
District Graduation Rates	n/a	n/a

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Temescal Canyon High School is a public high school located in Lake Elsinore, California and is part of the Lake Elsinore Unified School District. The school also serves the areas of Canyon Lake and Horsethief Canyon.
Colors and mascot: The school colors are silver and blue. The school mascott is a Titan.
History: Built in 1991 and opened for the 1991-1992 school year, Temescal had only freshmen and sophomores. The first graduating class was in 1994.
School Layout: Temescal Canyon is divided in "hundred" series buildings that consists of portable classrooms and permanent structures. The school was partially completed when it opened, but was subsequently completed in 1999.
The school contains two gyms, the old "small gym" and the newer "big gym" completed in 1999. The small gym is mainly used for indoor PE activities and some dances. It is connected to the cafeteria and kitchen. Adjacent to it are the lockers used only for PE classes. Next to both buildings is the big gym, aka as the Thunderdome, which is primarily used for basketball and volleyball games as well as school assemblies like pep rallies. It includes 2 sliding bleachers, opposed from one another with the letters TCHS spelled out on each side. With the bleachers back, three basketball courts are formed.
The school has a set of three fields: The softball/baseball fields are located at the northwest corner of the campus.
The soccer field is located below the big gym and filling in the space between the baseball and football field.
The football stadium is located at the southwest corner of the school and was newly renovated with new stands and synthetic turf.
The administration building includes the bookkeeping office, athletic director, counseling office, career center, and administrative offices usually restricted to students.
There are three parking lots, two of which are primarily for students only. Near the 800 building is one of them, but the biggest one is located near the stadium which includes spaces for office personel. Senior parking spaces are located in the same lot but nearer to the big gym. These spots are randomly chosen to a ceratin number of seniors in a lottery style choosing. The students who obtain these spaces must pay an extra fee but are given a special decal and are able to paint their spaces on senior paint party day. The rest of the staff park in the back lot behind the 900 building and are prohibited for use by students.
Students have numerous places to gather during break and lunch. Due to the layout of the school, quads are formed in between the buildings. The "Senior Quad" is elevated above the walkways in the northwest corner of the 600 building and includes a tarp. Less busy quads are quads formed at the 550 and 800 buildings.
Academics: The school offers the standard classes in addition to Advanced Placement(AP) courses: World History, US History, Art History (not always offered), English Literature, English Language, Physics (not always offered), Chemistry, Calculus, Spanish, Government and Politics, Economics. In addition to AP classes, advanced english 9 and 10 are offered as well as honors classes.
Temescal Canyon has a strong tradition in sports excellence, especially in football and basketball. In the 2005-2006 school season, TCHS football went into the division finals, defeated by Norco High. The school already has a division championship from the 1995 season. The winning tradition also extends to the girls leagues, such as in basketball in which they won in the 2005-2006 season as league champions.
As in many other high schools, pep rallies are held before big games and to celebrate certain things, such as senior walk in(the first pep rally of the year in which the senior class walks in front of the entre school wearing decorated crowns) and academics(the last pep rally of the year in which the teacher of the year and valedictorians are announced). Alliterations are created which are meant to pump up the students when competing against another team like, "spear the sharks" and "tame the tiger" weeks.
While the official mascot is the Titan, in subsequent years a kangaroo rat was the mascot at sporting events. This was to commemorate the species that inhabited the land the school was built on. Many students were not pleased about the mascot and was eventually replaced with the Titan.
Blue Hole: A huge part of Temescal Canyon is the Blue Hole club formed several years ago by football players and who wanted to do something during the off season. At almost every basketball game, home or away, a large group of students, all wearing blue shirts, gather in one section of the gym. From begining to end, they stand and chant phrases hoping to mentally defeat the opponets by cheering "Air ball!" and "It's all over!" among other sayings. The group has prompted new regulations not allowing them to sit behind the scorer's table. Their contained rowdiness has been credited to some of the success of the boys basketball team.
Fall Season (September-November): Football, Girls Volleyball, Cross Country, Girls Golf, Girls Tennis, Boys Water Polo.
Winter Season (December-February): Girls Water Polo, Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball, Boys Soccer, Girls Soccer, Wrestling.
Spring Season (March-May): Boys Golf, Baseball, Softball, Boys Track and Field, Girls Track and Field, Boys Swimming, Girls Swimming, Boys Tennis.
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About This Zip Code (92532)

School Zip (92532)

(CA) State Average

Population (Approximate)

4,542 people

33,115,272 people

% (age 25+) w/College Degree

24%

32%

Population Average Age

35 years old

32 years old

Average Household size

3.2 persons

2.9 persons

Median Household Income

$59,042

$48,909

Avg. # of Rooms in Household

6.5 rooms

4.8 rooms

Median Age of Housing Structure

17 years old

39 years old

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% Owning / % Renting

86% / 14%

58% / 42%

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