Montevideo Elementary

Located at 24071 Carrillo Dr., in Mission Viejo, California, Montevideo Elementary is an average-sized K-5 school that serves 444 students (grades K through 6), run under Saddleback Valley Unified.

Montevideo Elementary is one of 33 schools operated by Saddleback Valley Unified, a district that educates 22,646 students overall.

Demographically, Montevideo Elementary shows that the most-represented group is White (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 34% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 11% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 46% of students at Montevideo Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Orange County's rate of about 55%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Montevideo Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.3%; this one delivers 54.2%.

In the broader community, census data for Orange County shows median household income runs about $116,289, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Montevideo Elementary is one.

SVUSD Virtual Academy (Alternative) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Montevideo Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 66.6%.

Montevideo Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 19%: 372 students in 2018 compared to 444 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 54% to 42% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.8:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 in 2025.

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