Los Alisos Intermediate

Los Alisos Intermediate operates as a moderately sized middle-grades school in Mission Viejo, California, overseen by Saddleback Valley Unified. Current enrollment sits at 595 students spanning grades 7 through 8.

Saddleback Valley Unified runs 33 schools in total, collectively educating 22,646 students. Los Alisos Intermediate is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Los Alisos Intermediate logs that 72% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 16% White, 8% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Orange County's rate of about 55%.

With demographic context factored in, Los Alisos Intermediate performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.1%, the actual is 38.7%, a residual of +3.6 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Los Alisos Intermediate is one campus in the mix.

Ralph A. Gates DLI Magnet Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Los Alisos Intermediate ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 44.2%.

Los Alisos Intermediate operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Los Alisos Intermediate has fell 29%, going from 843 students in 2018 to 595 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 61% to 72% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.8:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 today.

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