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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Linda Vista Magnet Elementary

Mission Viejo, California

NCES ID
063386005304
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Linda Vista Magnet Elementary is a public primary school in Mission Viejo, California, run by Saddleback Valley Unified. It enrols 295 students — the 66290th largest of 10,418 public schools in California.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

295students

66290th nationally, tied with 160

Teachers

15.0FTE

75519th nationally, tied with 1,812

Students per teacher

19.7students

77660th nationally, tied with 350

Free or reduced-price lunch

81.0%percent

21201st nationally, tied with 98

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Saddleback Valley Unified

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Trabuco Hills High2,579 students
  2. 2El Toro High2,031 students
  3. 3Mission Viejo High1,646 students
  4. 4Laguna Hills High1,434 students
  5. 5Foothill Ranch Elementary1,056 students
  6. 6Rancho Santa Margarita Intermediate1,041 students
  7. 7Serrano Intermediate977 students
  8. 8Melinda Heights Elementary959 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: California median across 10,418 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−37.8%
  • Teachers−28.6%
  • Students per teacher−10.9%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+19.3%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.