Overview
About Laurelmont
Laurelmont covers 21 acres and the city's address layer records 197 addresses inside it, sitting on nine mapped parcels. Three streets run within the boundary: Pepperwood, Primrose and Willowood. The city zones the whole 21 acres Residential Medium Density, where the municipal code allows up to 18 units to the gross acre and the district takes in detached and attached single-family homes on smaller lots, duplexes, townhomes, apartments and condominiums. The measured figure works out to nine addresses to the acre.
Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park begins 196 feet from the boundary. Aliso Viejo Community Park is 1,305 feet off at 13.9 acres, with a softball field, a tot lot, hiking trails and walkways, and Aliso Viejo Ranch Park, the city's own seven acre park, is 1,442 feet. Capistrano Unified's own address locator assigns this ground to Wood Canyon Elementary for TK through grade 5, then Don Juan Avila Middle and Aliso Niguel High.
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How Laurelmont was built
Laurelmont was built in 1985, which puts it in the first handful of years of Aliso Viejo's existence. The city's first homes were offered for sale in March 1982 and the first residents moved in that November, so the 197 homes here went up while most of the surrounding hills were still empty. The style is Cape Cod, the plans have yards, and the three streets are Pepperwood, Primrose and Willowood.
The Mission Viejo Company bought the last 6,600 acres in 1976 and the county approved a master plan in 1979 that gave 2,600 acres to the county for the wilderness park and set aside another 800 for parks and schools. Laurelmont sits on 21 acres of what remained, near the Aliso Viejo Town Center.
By the Numbers
Laurelmont by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Laurelmont lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving Laurelmont
Capistrano Unified serves Laurelmont, and the district's own address locator returns one set of campuses across the boundary: Wood Canyon Elementary for TK through grade 5, then Don Juan Avila Middle and Aliso Niguel High. Aliso Viejo Middle at 0.23 miles is the nearest campus of any kind and is not the assignment. The tiles below carry federal enrollment counts and distances measured from the city's published boundary. Confirm the campus for a specific address with the district before it matters to an offer.
9-12 · 2,563 students
6-8 · 803 students
6-8 · 863 students
K-5 · 456 students
K-5 · 672 students
K-5 · 569 students
FAQs
Common questions about Laurelmont
How big is Laurelmont, and how many homes are there?
Measured against the boundary the City of Aliso Viejo publishes, Laurelmont covers 21 acres. The city's address layer records 197 addresses inside it and its parcel layer records nine parcels underneath them, which at nine addresses to the acre is a middling density among the fifty communities here.
What form does the housing take?
All three recorded maps covering Laurelmont are titled for condominium purposes on the face of the sheet, and the city's record agrees with them: 197 addresses across nine mapped parcels. The ground is zoned Residential Medium Density, where the municipal code allows up to 18 units to the gross acre.
Who subdivided Laurelmont?
The owner's certificate on sheet one of Tract 11777 names the Aliso Viejo Company, a California corporation, signed by executive vice president James G. Gilleran and secretary William K. Smith and notarized on 10 April 1986. The same company name appears on Tract 12229, which the county records as a portion of the same tentative tract.
Which schools serve Laurelmont?
Capistrano Unified's own address locator returns Wood Canyon Elementary for TK through grade 5, then Don Juan Avila Middle and Aliso Niguel High, and it returns the same three at every interior point across the boundary. Aliso Niguel High is 1.19 miles away and enrolled 2,563 students on the 2024-25 federal count. Aliso Viejo Middle at 0.23 miles is the nearest campus and is not the assignment.
How close is the open space?
Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park begins 196 feet from the boundary. OC Parks runs it across roughly 4,500 acres with more than 30 miles of official trails, two year round streams under mature oaks and sycamores, and a wildlife sanctuary designation. Creekside Park at 18.3 acres is 1,593 feet off.