El Camino Real Academy
Striving for Excellence
The 2023-2024 Transfer Lottery is now OPEN!
Please visit https://bit.ly/2023TransferLottery to complete an application!
The new SFPS Bulletin has arrived for Oct. 28th, 2022. Please follow this link: https://conta.cc/3WaIlXH
The new SFPS Bulletin has arrived for Oct. 21st, 2022. Please follow this link: https://conta.cc/3SmD8Ja
This week, NFHS CEO Karissa Niehoff unveils the nationwide campaign entitled Bench Bad Behavior which is designed to end the out-of-control behavior by parents and other fans at high school sporting events. This unacceptable behavior is driving away men and women from serving as officials and threatening the future of high school sports in our country. Very simply, this unsportsmanlike behavior must stop — Enough is Enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLZCfuNlmOA
SFPS presents Walk & Roll to School Week beginning October 11, 2022! Please see the flyer below for participating schools and times!
The new SFPS Bulletin is here: https://conta.cc/3SptLcw
There has been an increase in students doing the One-Chip Challenge at schools. The chip is available to purchase at local gas stations and grocery stores, and can cause extreme and unpleasant side effects which may result in an ambulance being called to the school.
Learn more about the One Chip Challenge here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fthIZ5PItxc
The Mexican Consulate is hosting the traditional Grito de Independencia ceremony for Independence Day, and six students from El Camino Real Academy have been chosen to be the honor guard!
Music and dance performances begin at 3 PM and the Cry of Independence will be at 5:30 PM at the Plaza!
Noon Duty Needed. Santa Fe Public Schools is looking for Noon Duty support!
Part-time, paid position that offers a great opportunity to support your neighborhood school! Both lunch duty and playground duty are available!
To apply, visit https://bit.ly/SFPSNoonDuty
El Camino Real Academy's 6th Graders from last year created a quilt that was chosen to represent SFPS at the NM State Fair! Please see below for pictures and more information on this wonderful honor! Congratulations to ECRA and the students and faculty involved!
The Santa Fe Public Schools wants to ensure each student has a device they can use both at school and at home for the upcoming school year and the first day of school for most students is Wednesday, August 17, 2022. Students in Pre-K and kindergarten will use iPads, students in grades 1 through 12 will use Chromebooks. There are just 3 days remaining for students to stop by the Technology Drive Thru to complete device exchanges or new device pickups.
Today (08/12/2022): 9 AM to 5:30 PM
Monday (08/15/2022): 9 AM to 5 PM
Tuesday (08/16/2022): 9 AM to 5 PM
The Technology Drive Thru is located at 2516 Cerrillos Road. The street to the Technology Department is next to the skate park on Camino Carlos Rey.
- Students NEW to Santa Fe Public Schools should come to the Technology Drive Thru to pick up their new iPad or Chromebook.
- Students who were in kindergarten last school year and will be in 1st grade this school year, need to exchange their iPad for a Chromebook. They must bring their iPad and charger for the exchange.
- Students who will be in grades 2 through 9 this school year, need to exchange their old Chromebooks. They must bring their old Chromebook and charger for the exchange.
- Returning students, who will be in grades 10 through 12, will NOT need to exchange their Chromebooks.
On the day of device exchange or pickup, a parent/guardian must be in the vehicle with a valid driver’s license or other official photo ID along with your child's Santa Fe Public Schools Student ID Number. Please call 505-467-4357 should you have any questions.
Please note that the Drive Thru will be closed each day from 1 to 2 PM. Additionally, the Drive Thru will shut down early in the event of inclement weather such as thunder, lightning for the safety of families and staff.
The Weekly Bulletin is BACK for the 2022-23 school year!
View the August 12th bulletin: https://conta.cc/3QkZ8Ux
2022-23 Bus Routes are here!
Check your students' school website to view the routes, or visit https://www.sfps.info/documents/departments/transportation/2022-2023-bus-routes/362057
SFPS is holding another COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic at Santa Fe High!
August 11th, 1:30 - 5:30 PM at the Tony Roybal Gym Concourse.
Sign up: https://goodtimes.vaccinenm.org/stay-ahead-nm/
We arrive today at El Camino Real Academy (ECRA) named for the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro or “Royal Road of the Interior” which is the earliest Euro-American trade route in the US that spans 3 centuries, 2 countries, and 1,600 miles. This historic trail travels from Mexico City to the San Juan Pueblo just north of the former capital of New Spain that is our city of Santa Fe. The Camino Real was a corridor that bred an exchange of cultures, languages, and ideas and its spirit lives on with the dynamic program offerings of the Academy bearing its name. Some of these are:
• Being the only International Spanish Academy in New Mexico
• Dual language studies for PreK through 8th grade
• 21st Century after school program for K-6th
• AVID programs from elementary through middle school
• Ballet Folklorico, ArtSmart, the STEM Club and Santa Fe Youth Symphony
• Cooking with Kids
• Band, choir, piano, guitar, drama, and art
Traveling the Camino Real today is a scenic and nationally recognized journey of back roads and numerous visitor sites. Keeping with this theme, the Wildcats’ middle school students are benefitting from a donation of Strider bike fleets, provided through a partnership between SFPS’ Sustainability Office and Free Bikes 4 Kidz New Mexico that includes integrating bicycle/pedestrian safety classes through the school’s physical education programs. ECRA is a focus school for the City of Santa Fe’s new Safe Routes to School program since over a third of students can walk or bike a short distance for their commute.
