Mission

It is the goal of the Ladera Ranch School to create a community of learners in which teachers, students, and parents work as a team to create a positive and safe environment so that all students learn. The community has identified five key areas of focus: Reading, writing, math, character, and information literacy.

Profile

Ladera Ranch Elementary and Middle Schools are located on a single campus at 29551 Sienna Parkway in Ladera Ranch California. Ladera Ranch School opened on August 27, 2003, serving students for the first time from the communities of Ladera Ranch, Mission Viejo, and San Juan Capistrano.

The Ladera Ranch School campus is a beautiful state-of-the-art facility. In a first for Orange County, Ladera Ranch School has entered into a partnership the Orange County Public Library, and the campus houses the Ladera Ranch branch of the library.

Ladera Ranch School is a high tech hub and offers a hard-wired and wireless infrastructure for information technology. This supports a unique voluntary Learning with Laptops program in which the school enters into partnership with parents to provide a world-class education for students in the area information literacy. Students in grades 3–8 can bring a laptop computer to school everyday.