The severe damage to many school buildings in the 1933 Long Beach earthquake prompted the California State Legislature to pass the Field Act , mandating that school buildings be earthquake-resistant . The state inspected EHS and found the campus to be unsafe , but the inspection report was never acted upon . In the 1950s , the district wanted to construct a new high school to address overcrowding . The new school was to be named Vallecitos High School and located at the present-day North Broadway site . Two bond measures were required to fund construction . When the district began the process of submitting the second bond measure , the state confronted them with the old inspection report . The state again declared the campus unsafe and then required the district to vacate EHS before attempting the bond measure . Classes were moved to the partially completed Vallecitos High , temporary tents , and the buildings at EHS that were still considered safe . The North Broadway campus was completed in 1954 . The Vallecitos name was dropped and the campus took the Escondido High name . The downtown campus was fully demolished in the mid-1980s
1933 Long Beach earthquake
1933 Long Beach earthquake
Escondido High School