PEC ♥ ASAP
Bring Paul Ecke Central home.
Our school came down in August. 520 kids are being bused across Encinitas while the rebuild sits still. We’re a group of parents asking everyone involved for the same thing: get creative, work together, and get shovels in the ground.
Why we’re here
A school, not a development project.
Paul Ecke Central has been at the heart of Leucadia since 1927. It isn’t a shopping center. It isn’t a high-rise built for profit. It’s a neighborhood elementary school, and right now its students are sitting in other people’s classrooms.
We’re not here to take sides, point fingers, or litigate the past. We’re parents, here to be partners. We’re asking the City and the school district for the same thing, in the same words: all hands on deck, think outside the box, and let’s get our kids home.
Where things stand
Every month costs us something.
What we’re asking for
Two things, and neither lowers the bar.
Get the permit moving
Bring creativity, open-mindedness and a willingness to consider reasonable variances to a project that is a public school, not a commercial build.
Treat it as a priority
Every month of delay adds cost, adds bus miles, and takes another month from a class of kids who only get one time through elementary school.
The school is named Paul Ecke Central. It’s more than a name — it is the center of our community. Help us bring it back.
Add your name
Sign the petition.
You don’t need a child at Paul Ecke. If you live in Encinitas, this is your bond money, your neighborhood and your school. Every signature is one more name we can put in front of the people who can move this.
Follow the record
Read the documents yourself.
We keep our own claims to what the public record supports. If you want to read the underlying correspondence, reviews and filings, there’s a community-maintained tracker that collects them in one place.
A community synthesis of public records, maintained independently. Not an official City or District source.
In the news
Press.
What’s been reported about the rebuild so far.
CBS 8 · Oct 13, 2026 · TV
Parents concerned about Paul Ecke Central Elementary construction delays in Encinitas
4pm story (full report) →
6am segment →
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“In the Right Now” on YouTube →
@CBS8 reel on Instagram →
Yahoo News · Oct 13, 2026
Parents concerned about Paul Ecke Central Elementary construction delays in Encinitas
The CBS 8 report, on Yahoo News →
The Coast News · Oct 8, 2026 · Opinion
Bring Paul Ecke Central home
Read the piece →
San Diego Union-Tribune · Sept 27, 2026
Parents urge city to resolve dispute with Encinitas school district over renovation project
Read the article →
Want to get involved?
There’s room for you.
You don’t need to speak at a meeting or know anything about permits. Most of what helps is simply more people, saying the same thing, in more places.
Write to the Council
Copy the email in the share kit below, add a line in your own words, and send it. It takes two minutes and it enters the public record.
Write to the District
There’s a second template for EUSD in the share kit below. We ask both agencies for the same thing, in the same words — that’s what keeps us credible.
Come to a meeting
Both City Council and EUSD board meetings matter. You don’t have to speak — sitting in the room and being counted goes further than you’d think.
Post it
Take a caption from the share kit below and put it on your feed, your stories, your group chats. Same words, more voices — that’s what makes this hard to overlook.
Sign the petition
Add your name, then send it to at least twenty people you know. That one step does more than anything else on this page.
Offer to help
Join the WhatsApp group and you’ll get bulletins, updates and calls for help — answer the ones you can. If you can’t make it in person, chipping in towards yard signs, magnets and flyers helps just as much.
Or write to us directly: PECasap2027@gmail.com
Chip in
What the money buys.
Nothing here pays a person. Every dollar goes into putting PEC ♥ ASAP where Encinitas will see it — yard signs for the neighbourhoods, bumper magnets, flyers for every EUSD school community, window signs for local businesses, and a banner on the construction fence at Union and Vulcan.
When the school is rebuilt, whatever is left over is split evenly between all nine EUSD elementary school PTAs.
More from PEC
The school we’re bringing back.
We’re a group of parents, not an official body. For everything else — volunteering, donating, school information, or just seeing what this community looks like — start here.
Paul Ecke Central, its PTA and the Encinitas Union School District are separate from this parent effort. We speak only for ourselves.