Saddleback Valley Unified School District ( SVUSD ) is a public school district in South Orange County, California . It includes 23 elementary schools , four intermediate schools , four comprehensive high schools , and four alternative schools . It serves all of Lake Forest and Laguna Hills and serves parts of Mission Viejo , Rancho Santa Margarita , and a very small portion of Irvine . It also serves the unincorporated communities of Trabuco Canyon and Modjeska. Also, while Laguna Woods has no schools due to it being a retirement community, students who live with relatives in the area may choose to attend schools in the Saddleback Valley district.
7-424: The SVUSD Virtual Academy serves students at the Elementary, Intermediate, and High School levels. On March 23, 2022, two former Mission Viejo High School students filed a civil suit in Orange County Superior Court alleging that James Harris, husband of SVUSD visual and performing arts coordinator Kathy Cannarozzi Harris as well as a substitute teacher at the school, groomed them and sexually abused them in
14-438: The 2022–2023 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,646 students and 75.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 21.8. 40.9% of students were eligible for free or discounted lunch. Mission Viejo has been an International Baccalaureate (IB) school since July 1985. This program, taught to 80 students, is for academically talented and highly motivated students sponsored and administered by
21-709: The IB Organization. The students who meet the IB requirements are eligible for the International Baccalaureate Diploma. This school received approximately 80 diplomas in the 2015–2016 school year. Mission Viejo High School has been awarded the Blue Ribbon School and Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education on three separate occasions, in 1988–89, 1994–96 and 2001–02,
28-555: The area since 1966. Students within its attendance boundaries live in western Mission Viejo , southwest Lake Forest , Trabuco Canyon , Rancho Santa Margarita , and Laguna Hills . Its mascot is Pablo the Diablo and its colors are scarlet and gold. 230 credits are required to graduate. It is the home to one of the only agricultural farms on a high school campus in the Saddleback Valley Unified School District. In
35-651: The highest award an American school can receive. Mission Viejo High School has been recognized six times as a California Distinguished School , in 1988, 1994, 2001, 2009, 2013, and 2024. The school's marching band is part of the Western Band Association . They have competed in the 5A division every year until 2016, in which they began competing in 4A and won their division at the WBA Class Championships. The school offers four different choir classes: Concert Choir, Diablo Chorus, Treble Choir and
42-603: The late 1990s. One of the plaintiffs was 15 at the time. The women allege that Kathy Harris personally observed the abuse, which allegedly occurred on the Mission Viejo High School campus and at her home. According to the filing, they reported the abuse to the SVUSD several times over the course of two decades, but no decisive action was taken. Jim Harris denied the allegations to the Los Angeles Times . The SVUSD said it
49-572: Was investigating. Kathy Harris still teaches at the school. This Orange County, California school-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mission Viejo High School Mission Viejo High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Mission Viejo, California , United States, as part of the Saddleback Valley Unified School District . The school has served
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