El Toro High School


El Toro High School is a public high school in Lake Forest, California, and is one of five high schools in the Saddleback Valley Unified School District. "El Toro" was the name of the community from the 1870s until a referendum in 1991. The school has served the area since 1973. The current principal of the school is Terri Gusiff.

Academics

El Toro began participating in the International Baccalaureate Program in 2004, the program was scheduled to end in 2011 due to district and state budget cuts, however it was slated to continue into 2012 school year.

Extracurricular activities

El Toro has two award-winning competition show choirs, Soundsation and Choralistics. In April 2009, both choirs competed twice earning 3 golds and one silver.

Awards

During the 2007 California wildfires, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger made a speech at El Toro High School It was also used as an evacuation center.
Near the center of the campus there was a set of 20 stairs, known simply as El Toro 20, which gained notoriety in the skateboarding and BMX riding communities and was featured in numerous videos. There is also another set of stairs right next to the El Toro 20, but it was not used as frequently for high profile tricks. In June 2019, the stair set used for skateboarding was torn down. With the stair set being a flat bank, biker Dylan Stark used the stair set's demise as an opportunity to jump off a nearby roof on his mountain bike and use the bank as a landing There is now a gate blocking the top of the stairs.