La Costa Canyon High School, or LCC, is part of the San Dieguito Union High School District. Students come from the coastal communities of Cardiff, Encinitas, Leucadia, Olivenhain and south Carlsbad. The Mavericks' student body maintains high academic standards, with more than 90 percent of students attending college after graduation.
LCC has 120 classrooms, five computer labs, a 470-seat performing arts center, a library media center, audio-visual technology facilities, music performance classrooms, an architecture / engineering lab, a two-story gymnasium with a 2,200-person capacity, and a state-of-the-art all-weather track and field facility with a stadium that seats 5,000.