Cabrillo High School is a California Distinguished School[2] that serves students of Vandenberg Village, the city of Lompoc, and Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County, on the California Central Coast.

Built to serve the residents of Vandenberg Space Force Base, Vandenberg Village, and the northern Lompoc Valley, Cabrillo answered the sudden population boom during the late 1950s and 1960s, a result of the booming space program at Vandenberg.

Named for the early Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, the school board of Lompoc chose the Conquistador to be the mascot of the new high school in the early 1960s, with the black and gold of the first Spanish Californian flags as the school colors.

In 2015, a resident spoke in favor of changing the name and mascot due their associations with slavery and the colonization of Native Americans.

School Board president Steve Straight told a reporter that he had been working at the school for over 50 years but has never heard anyone make that particular statement before.