Dual Enrollment at Your High School

K-12 students must submit an online application for admission to El Camino College.

• If you applied for a previous term and have not missed consecutive fall and spring semesters since that term, proceed to Step 2.
• Students need to apply for admission again if they do not register for classes for consecutive fall and spring terms (and to attend El Camino College after high school).

Apply for Admission

If this is your first time applying, you will first need to create an OpenCCC Account. Take your time and enter all identifying information accurately.

After signing into your OpenCCC account, click the button to Start a New Application.

• Make sure to select the earliest term you wish to start taking classes, e.g. Summer Term 2025 or Fall Semester 2025.
• K-12 students select a College Enrollment Status of "enrolling in high school (or lower grade) and college at the same time."

For help to apply for admission, follow this guide:

Help to Apply PDF

Reminder! To attend El Camino College after high school, students need to apply for admission again as a first-time college student. What happens after I graduate from high school? 

 

Below are tutorials to make sure students have successfully applied to El Camino College, receive their Welcome Email, can access MyECC — and more!

After you submit an application for admission, you will receive a few different emails right away — one of which will contain your 8-digit Confirmation Number.

• Confirm you Submitted an Application for Admission

Within 1-3 business days, you will be sent your Welcome Email with important information about your El Camino student account.

• Did not receive your Welcome Email?

The first time you sign into MyECC, you will prompted to create a new secure password.

• Sign into MyECC and Create New Password
• Reset your MyECC Password

Required security feature! Follow these steps if you see "Let's keep your account secure" when using MyECC.

• Set up Multi-Factor Authentication

Check your @elcamino.edu email address regularly.

• Access your ECC Email Address

In case you need to update or correct the information on your El Camino student account.

• Update your Student Account

 

K-12 students need to submit a completed Dual Enrollment Application Form for every term they wish to take classes.

• This form needs to be signed by the student, a parent/guardian, and a principal or counselor at the student's high school. Signatures cannot be typed — all parties must draw their signature using pen, mouse, or touchscreen.
• This form indicates the High School Partnership Class(es) for which a K-12 student is approved in Section III (example: History 102 and Spanish 1).

Download PDF Form

We've created these instructions to help complete the Dual Enrollment Application Form using Adobe Acrobat Reader or by printing and scanning:

K-12 Form Help PDF

To submit your completed form

Important! Completed forms for High School Partnership Classes (only) are collected by your high school to submit to El Camino College as a batch, along with a roster of participating students for each class.

 

High schools verify that participating K-12 students taking High School Partnership Classes meet any prerequisites for the class. There is nothing else that students need to do to complete this step.

 

This step is completed by El Camino College for K-12 students taking High School Partnership Classes at their high school.

Participating students are typically registered for their High School Partnership Classes the week before the start of class.

Students must be listed on the roster provided by the high school and have successfully completed Steps 1-2 (above) in order to be manually registered by El Camino College staff.

Important! Any issues with a student's application or form can result in a delay. El Camino also needs to receive the roster and forms from each high school partner in a timely manner.

In the event of a delay, students may only be registered after the class has already started, and will not have access to any online class content in Canvas until they are officially registered.

 

After you submit an application for admission, you will receive a few different emails right away — one of which will contain your 8-digit Confirmation Number.

• Confirm you Submitted an Application for Admission

Within 1-3 business days, you will be sent your Welcome Email with important information about your El Camino student account.

• Did not receive your Welcome Email?

 

The first time you sign into MyECC, you will prompted to create a new secure password.

• Sign into MyECC and Create New Password
• Reset your MyECC Password

 

Required security feature! Follow these steps if you see "Let's keep your account secure" when using MyECC.

• Set up Multi-Factor Authentication

 

Online classes are delivered using Canvas.

• For general information about Online and Hybrid classes, see How do Online and Hybrid classes work?

Your Canvas account is created after you register for your first El Camino College class — usually overnight. Make sure you can access Canvas before your classes begin.

• Access Canvas

Classes will only appear in Canvas on the Start Date for the class, and only after you are officially registered.

• Find your Online Classes

 

Check your @elcamino.edu email address and use Microsoft Office apps online.

• Access your ECC Email Address
• Microsoft 365 Apps

 

Here are links and information for K-12 students to connect with El Camino College support staff!

Warrior Welcome Center

For support to sign into MyECC.

Zoom Link

• Virtual Online Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
• On-Campus Hours: Monday - Friday : 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
• Check the Warrior Welcome Center webpage for updates

Dual Enrollment

• Dual Enrollment Zoom Help is available every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from 4:00-5:00 p.m.
• We are also available at (310) 660-3344 during open hours. For help to sign into MyECC, please call while using a computer or mobile device to let us know what you are experiencing on your screen.

Help Desk

For support with Multi-Factor Authentication.

• Email: [email protected]
• Phone: (310) 660-6571
• Office: ITEC Building, Room 140
  Monday-Thursday  8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
  Friday  8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (except during summer)

 

K-12 students taking High School Partnership Classes are subject to the same deadline dates for dropping a class as college students. View the Academic Calendar to learn the Last Day to Drop Without Notation and Last Day to Drop with a "W" for each term.

• Typically, registered students must drop themselves using MyECC. Instructions can be found at How do I drop a class?
• However, K-12 students who are manually registered into High School Partnership Classes may experience an error. If this is the case, please communicate your drop request to the contact(s) for Dual Enrollment at your high school.

Only after your Dual Enrollment Form is processed (and you no longer see the "All K12 Forms Not Submitted" notification in MyECC) will you be able to drop using MyECC.

View Grading Policies for more information about the "W" (Withdrawal) notation and El Camino College grades and grade point average.

 

Enrolled courses and grades earned will appear on your El Camino College transcript for college credit.

• Final grades are submitted by instructors up to 7 days after the End Date of the class, and only then become visible on a student's El Camino College transcript.
  

• To check your transcript, follow this tutorial:

  • Unofficial and Official Transcripts

Any and all high school credit is determined by your high school. Each high school sets their own policies and procedure to obtain credit.