San Juan Hills High School

San Juan Hills High School is a high school located in San Juan Capistrano, California, and it is the sixth high school of the Capistrano Unified School District. The school officially opened in the 2007-2008 school year as a new comprehensive high school and it serves the residents of San Juan Capistrano, Capistrano Beach, and southern Ladera Ranch in Orange County, California.Test scoresIn its opening year, San Juan Hills High School had an Academic Performance Index of 748, and in 2009 it surpassed the district goal of 800 by reaching 810.ControversyThere was controversy when Capistrano Unified School District was planning to open this school. The primary reason for the controversy was the changing of the district boundaries. Capistrano Beach residents, whose students previously attended San Clemente High School, feel that they are basically a part of San Clemente and some initially resisted the change. Many high school students from Ladera Ranch will now attend SJHHS, instead of Tesoro High School in Las Flores. A small number of high school students from Ladera attend Capistrano Valley High School in Mission Viejo. There were changes to district wide boundaries, one result of which included sending all of the high school students in Mission Viejo from a split between Tesoro High School in Las Flores and Capistrano Valley High School, to just CVHS (due to the students from San Juan Capistrano, who previously attended CVHS now attending SJHHS). Dana Hills High School in Dana Point saw the loss of all its students from San Juan Capistrano and its boundaries shrunk. San Clemente High School's boundaries also became smaller, which was essentially a welcome change because the school was already overcrowded. They had over 3,000 students, now enrolling students from the growing Talega neighborhood in San Clemente.