Our School's Mission

Principal: Mr. David L. Ortiz
Assistant Principals:  Mr. Lito M. Garcia and Mrs. Rachel Gonzales-Harris

La Colina Junior High School, in partnership with parents and the community, will provide professional instruction and guidance so that students will:

• Attain academic excellence

• Take responsibility for their own learning and development

• Understand and respect diversity

• Balance individual interests and civic responsibilities

• Participate in an increasingly technological society through increased career awareness.

All human and material resources of La Colina Junior High School will be dedicated to these purposes.

La Colina Junior High School opened in September, 1959, and is located on a beautiful campus set back from Foothill Road near the San Marcos Pass highway, with views of the mountains and the ocean. The staff includes 41 regular education teachers, five special education teachers, two counselors, one librarian, and three administrators. Support staff includes six office personnel, five grounds and building maintenance staff, six food service workers, and fourteen aides.

The school became a two-year junior high in 1981, dropping enrollment from 1,100 to 650. Grades seven and eight are now on campus with an enrollment of approximately 1005 students.

The campus is shared with the Open Alternative School, Las Alturas, and Community Day School.