El Toro High School

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Principal's Message

Welcome to El Toro High School!

I am excited for my third year as principal at El Toro High School, and I look forward to another exciting year with our incredible students and staff for the 2024-25 school year!

As a lifelong Charger—an alum, former ETHS teacher, coach, athletic director, and assistant principal—it’s a true honor to continue serving the school and community that have shaped my life over the past three decades. The relationships I've built here remain close to my heart, and I’m committed to nurturing and growing those connections.

This year, we’re continuing our focus on student achievement and wellness by fostering positive relationships. Our mission is to ensure that every Charger has the best possible high school experience, graduates with the confidence to succeed in college and their careers, and feels supported in a safe, welcoming environment. Simply put, we’ll work hard and have fun together!

We invite you to explore the many outstanding programs we offer at El Toro High School. From AP Capstone, the STEAM Academy, MUN, and AVID to the arts, athletics, and clubs, there’s something here for everyone. We encourage you to dive into our distinguished Charger activities as you prepare for your future.

We’re proud to serve the Charger Family and look forward to an amazing 2024-25 school year!

– Dr. Martin, Principal

 

The Charger family is an inclusive and diverse community that provides a rigorous, innovative, and accessible curriculum in a supportive environment.  El Toro’s mission is to prepare all students to succeed in college and career and to contribute positively to our changing global society.

El Toro High has a rich tradition of academic excellence and offers a wide range of highly regarded curricular and co-curricular programs. The primary focus of El Toro remains to be the high quality instruction for students across all disciplines, in concert with a commitment to college and career readiness. The school's commitment to the Common Core State Standards is reflected in its mission statement as well as in its policies and practices. El Toro High School's mission is to provide all students with a rigorous and competitive, standards-based curriculum in a safe learning environment that has quality extracurricular programs, which enables students to reach their highest potential. Students will be given learning opportunities that will equip them with the necessary skills they need for their own future success. Our core focus areas are the following:

  1. El Toro High School will develop and maintain positive parent, student, and community involvement and engagement to promote student success.
  2. All students will demonstrate mastery of grade level content and graduate prepared to be successful in college, career, and beyond.
  3. All students will have appropriately assigned teachers with access to curriculum aligned instructional materials where state academic standards are implemented in a safe, clean, and functional school facilities.  

El Toro is recognized for its positive school climate and strong tradition of academic and athletic accomplishments, El Toro annually boasts high graduation rates, high passing rates on college preparatory program examinations, such as Advanced Placement (AP), with SAT scores well above the national average, millions of dollars worth of scholarships, California Interscholastic Federation team championships and individual honors, Sea View and South Coast League Championships, National Letter of Intent athletes, and millions of dollars worth of athletic scholarships.

El Toro High is prominent from other high schools in the nation due to its culture of family, a "Charger Family." The Charger Family thrives on generosity, compassion, and service before self. There is an overwhelming consensus by all stakeholders that El Toro comprises a Charger Family that consists of faculty, support staff, student body, and administration that depict all these traits. El Toro has a thriving Associated Student Body (ASB) leadership program that has continued to emphasize the importance of the Charger Family. It is evident through El Toro's National School of Distinction Award for its work in supporting the Fight Hunger Program and its collection of thousands of cans of food that are raised for South County Outreach and Adopt-a-Neighbor food banks that El Toro is truly a community high school with rich tradition, pride, compassion, and spirit.