Overview
About Cadence Park
The City of Irvine publishes Cadence Park as a boundary of its own, twice. It is district 4 in the city's Great Park development districts layer, where it carries the name Cadence Park, and the identical shape appears in the city's village layer under its planning name, District 4. Measured off that polygon the community covers about 201 acres inside Planning Area 51, and the city's address record counts 1,089 residential address points on 31 named streets, among them Benchmark, Frame, Cultivate, Scale, Crossover, Episode, Spectacle, Stage, Perspective and Theme. Every owner belongs to the Great Park Neighborhoods Community Association, professionally managed by FirstService Residential from an on-site office at 120 Newington. Two sub-associations sit inside the boundary, Muse under The Management Trust and Chorus under Seabreeze Management, and an owner in either pays a second assessment on top of the master one.
The ten non-residential addresses inside the boundary are all on Benchmark: Cadence Pool at 701, Cadence Park at 703 and the eight building points of Cadence Park School at 750. Cadence Pool carries a three-lane recreational pool, a jacuzzi, a wading pool, a barbecue and outdoor kitchen area, a fire pit and two shuffleboard courts, and is one of eight association pool facilities across the village. The association also places basketball and volleyball courts at Cadence Park, bocce ball courts shared with Beacon Park, an art walk, and a lending library open 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. that a resident key fob unlocks. All of it is private and resident-only, capped at five guests a household, and none of the ten indoor and outdoor spaces the association rents for private gatherings is in Cadence Park, so a resident booking a room for a party reserves it in another neighborhood. Cadence Park School, an Irvine Unified K-8 campus of 965 students at 750 Benchmark, stands inside the boundary and feeds Portola High.
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How Cadence Park was built
Cadence Park opened on 24 March 2018, later than its neighbors, with fourteen home collections going on sale at once and an eight-acre park at the center of it at 703 Benchmark. The theme is the performing arts, and it was not treated as decoration. Three separate buildings in the park are given over to music, dance, visual art and literature, holding a lending library, a gallery and a studio, with an outdoor amphitheater for performances. RSM Design did the signs and building identities in bright color and polished surfaces meant to reflect and move, working alongside Studio One Eleven and BrightView Design Group. LeBasse Projects put together the Art Walk that runs through the neighborhood, a paved path of murals and sculpture. Even the playground is in on it, with musical elements, a log scramble and a giant Newton's cradle. The houses arrived in Colonial, Spanish and Art Deco dress, from Lennar, Richmond American, Pulte and others.
The name is a musical term, and so is most of the map. The City's street list for Cadence Park runs Blue Note, Jazz, Chord, Measure, Score, Pitch, Bravo, Stage, Drama, Spectacle, Masterpiece, Sculpture, Pastel and Theme. The school followed the houses by a few months. Cadence Park School opened in August 2018 as an Irvine Unified K-8 campus and was finished that October, built to the district's master plan education specifications and given Art Deco styling to match the houses around it. It has not stopped growing since: relocatable classrooms went in as enrollment climbed, and permanent classrooms and a collaboration space have been added on top of those, which is the plainest measure of how new this ground still is.
By the Numbers
Cadence Park by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Cadence Park lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving Cadence Park
Portola High School is the assignment that rests on a published map. Its Irvine Unified attendance area covers northeastern Irvine east of Sand Canyon Avenue and names Cadence Park on the district map effective 2026-27. Cadence Park School, an Irvine Unified K-8 campus, stands inside the community at 750 Benchmark and feeds Portola High. Attendance for the K to 8 years is set by address rather than by which campus is closest, so confirm a specific address with Irvine Unified before it matters to a decision.
K-8 · 965 students
9-12 · 2,693 students
FAQs
Common questions about Cadence Park
What does a home in Cadence Park sell for?
Cadence Park has no MLS area of its own, so no median is published under its name. Every home here is filed under GP - Great Park, and that code covers the whole village around it: the city's address record puts 7,382 residential address points in Great Park against 1,089 in Cadence Park, spanning districts built in different years to different plans. Pricing an address here takes comparable sales pulled by address rather than by area code, and we run that on request.
When was Cadence Park built, and what was here before?
Orange County recorded twenty subdivision maps inside the boundary, seventeen of them between 11 and 22 December 2015 and the last three in May and August 2017 and December 2019. Before that the ground was Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, commissioned in 1943 and named for the nearest post office in the small community of El Toro, and before the station it was farmland the city's own naming record calls the largest lima bean field in North America. Five Point Communities, acting for Heritage Fields El Toro, LLC, is the applicant behind Planning Area 51, and FivePoint puts the Great Park Neighborhoods at roughly 2,100 acres.
Which schools serve Cadence Park?
Portola High School, whose Irvine Unified assignment area covers northeastern Irvine east of Sand Canyon Avenue and names Cadence Park on the map effective 2026-27. It enrolls 2,693 students, reports a 94.6 percent graduation rate and offers 98 AP courses on a 42-acre campus opened in 2016. Cadence Park School, an Irvine Unified K-8 campus, stands inside the community at 750 Benchmark and feeds Portola High. It enrolls 965 students, 740 of them in K-6, and reports 69 percent meeting or exceeding standard in English and 67 percent in math on CAASPP 2024-25 at a 27 to 1 ratio. Attendance for the K to 8 years is set by address rather than by which campus is closest, so check a specific address with the district.
What do the association fees cost, and what do they buy?
The Great Park Neighborhoods Community Association puts master dues between $221.83 and $260.00 a month during buildout and directs owners to their own statement for the exact figure. An owner in Muse or Chorus, the two sub-associations inside Cadence Park, pays a second assessment on top of that, and neither publishes an amount, so the real monthly figure for a specific address comes out of that address's own documents. What the master assessment buys inside this boundary is Cadence Pool at 701 Benchmark, with a three-lane recreational pool, jacuzzi, wading pool, barbecue and outdoor kitchen, fire pit and two shuffleboard courts, and Cadence Park at 703 Benchmark, with basketball and volleyball courts, bocce shared with Beacon Park, an art walk and a key-fob lending library. Membership also opens the other seven association pools and ten park locations across the wider village.
Have you sold in Cadence Park?
Yes. 127 Theme at $1,870,000, where we represented both the buyer and the seller, and 102 Perspective at $3,511,500 on the buy side. A third, 129 Sculpture at $2,140,000, was a buy-side purchase handled off-market. Each is placed inside this community by testing its address against the City of Irvine's own address record rather than by zip code, which matters here because zip 92618 covers the whole Great Park village and several communities beyond it.