NCES CCD 2024-25 22 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Mission Viejo, CA

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22 public K-12 schools in Mission Viejo from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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22
Schools
14,270
Students
40.9/100
Avg Resource Index
20.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Mission Viejo has more public-school enrollment than 88% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Mission Viejo sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

12 of Mission Viejo's 22 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 4 middle and 4 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Mission Viejo's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 50th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 15th percentile. The 35-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 12%
School count
Top 13%
Resource Index average
50th percentile
Teacher staffing
15th percentile

Trabuco Hills High accounts for 17.3% of all Mission Viejo public-school enrollment

That concentration means Mission Viejo-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Mission Viejo school enrollment varies 31× across entities

Mission Viejo school enrollment ranges from 80 students (lowest) to 2,475 students (highest), a spread of 2,395 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Mission Viejo student-teacher ratio is 20.1:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Svusd Virtual Academy (Alternative) 65
2. Silverado High 61
3. Carl Hankey Middle 57
4. De Portola Elementary 47
5. Castille Elementary 45
6. Mission Viejo High 44
7. Montevideo Elementary 44
8. Del Cerro Elementary 44
9. Carl Hankey Elementary 44
10. Linda Vista Magnet Elementary 42
11. Oxford Preparatory Academy - South Orange County 41
12. Philip J. Reilly Elementary 41
13. Trabuco Hills High 38
14. Del Lago Elementary 38
15. Newhart Middle 37
16. Capistrano Valley High 34
17. La Paz Intermediate 34
18. Los Alisos Intermediate 33
19. Bathgate Elementary 32
20. Glen Yermo Elementary 29
21. Esperanza Education Center 26
22. Viejo Elementary 24

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Mission Viejo

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Oxford Preparatory Academy - South Orange County 71.8/100
  2. 2 Newhart Middle 70.7/100
  3. 3 Del Cerro Elementary 69.8/100
  4. 4 Svusd Virtual Academy (Alternative) 69.7/100
  5. 5 Del Lago Elementary 69.1/100

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Which Mission Viejo school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Svusd Virtual Academy (Alternative) has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Mission Viejo schools in this federal-data comparison at 65/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Mission Viejo, CA? ▼

Mission Viejo has 22 public schools with a total enrollment of 14,270 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 20.1:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.