El Camino Real Charter High School, a comprehensive four-year high school located in the West San Fernando Valley, serves the communities of Woodland Hills, West Hills, and Canoga Park. El Camino Real Charter High School also receives students under the District's Voluntary Integration Program and Capacity Adjustment Program from the downtown Los Angeles Area. 6.68% of the students are ELL, English Language Learners. This highly academic campus has 40% of its seniors attending four-year institutions and 52% attending two-year or community colleges. 92.5% of the class of 2006 graduated with diplomas. El Camino became a charter school in the 2011-2012 school year.
El Camino Real Charter (often abbreviated "ECR") is one of the most successful teams in the history of Academic Decathlon. ECR has a record ten National Championships, the most of any high school in the nation. Its team has won the national championship in 1998, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2023, and 2024. ECR has also captured 13 California State titles, yet another record. The team has also won the regional competition 15 times: four times before the 1997-98 date change, and eleven times after it.
As of 2018, twenty six Decathletes are known to have broken the nine thousand barrier. The top scorer to have come from ECR is honor student Maya Teitz, whose performance at the 2018 State competition earned her 9,652 points setting the highest-scoring decathlete record. Other ECR Decathletes to have broken nine thousand include Nancy Fu (Nationals 1998), Adam Singer (Nationals 2004), Helen Durand and Venus Vakhshori (Nationals 2007), and Johnathan Yih (Regionals 2013). Also having hit 9k are Scholastic Dustin Chen (State 2008) and Varsity Rohan Boone (State 2014), who both scored 9,042.8 points. Sandra Vadhin (Nationals 2014) broke the highest-scoring scholastic record with a score of 9,256.0. Ashley Lao, Ross Rosenthal, and Sidharth Bambah broke nine thousand in 2016 and Chloe Smull reached the milestone in 2017. 2018 saw Matthew Fitzmorris, Avery Tamura, Rachel Markenson, Nolan Origer and Trevor Winnard all scoring over 9,000 with Trevor Winnard setting the highest-scoring varsity record with 9,518.4 earned at the regional competition. Peter Knauss (State 2019) , Allison Yan (State 2020), Ayan Ahmed (2021), Colin Origer (2021), William Fitzmorris (2021), Marisol Mendoza (2022), Rebeca Mendoza (2022), Adam Markenson (State 2023)
