Did you or your kids attend sixth grade camp at Cuyamaca Outdoor School? It turns 75 this week.

For 70 years, Cuyamaca Outdoor School — better known as sixth grade camp — has specialized in such hands-on, low-tech assignments.

Students from across San Diego who went to Cuyamaca Outdoor School were delighted by the snow and enjoyed learning hands on science lessons.

Cuyamaca Outdoor School teaches science to thousands of students annually through four- or five-day excursions in the mountains of Cuyamaca Rancho State Park.

Now, sixth- grade camp occurs solely at the Cuyamaca site, about an hour east of San Diego. About 12,000 students attend camp each school year, with up to 432 students participating each week.

As the economy has improved, a number of districts have reinstated Sixth-Grade Camp, including the Lemon Grove School District, which returned to the Outdoor School in 2017 after a nine-year absence.

On Monday, some 400 Encinitas schoolchildren will pile into buses and head up to Cuyamaca State Park for sixth-grade camp. Their trip will mark the 70th anniversary of this San Diego County ...

SAN DIEGO — School officials announced that sixth-grade camp was canceled for Pacific Beach Middle School students less than 24 hours before students were scheduled to depart.

Nearly 400 students from different schools around San Diego County took advantage of the fallen snow that blanketed them at Cuyamaca Outdoor School Wednesday.

Sixth graders at Manton Middle School are enjoying a week full of outdoor activities. Every year the sixth grade class spends a week at Camp Rotary near Clare. COVID-19 kept that from happening ...

As soon as 11-year-old Elle Yazdani stepped off a school bus after being snowed in at an outdoor science camp in the mountains, her mom was there with a big hug and her favorite Chick-fil-A meal ...

On October 17, a group of sixth graders arrived at Oregon’s Camp Tamarack, located near the town of Sisters, for a three-day stay at outdoor school, a state-funded staple for students. But just ...