Overview
About Woodside-El Toro
Woodside-El Toro covers 21.5 acres and holds 109 homes on eight streets, with a median lot of 5,608 square feet. The Aliso Creek Trail runs through the community on the city's trail map, six acres inside the boundary are zoned open space against one acre of single-family residential, and 2.4 acres sit in FEMA flood zone AE.
The city's pool layer counts 44 backyard pools inside the boundary, 23 spas and sixteen solar installations, and no shared pool. That is more than one private pool for every three homes. El Toro Water District supplies the water, street sweeping runs Friday afternoons, and children go to Glen Yermo Elementary, Serrano Intermediate and El Toro High.
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How Woodside-El Toro was built
El Toro was what this town was called from about 1863 until Lake Forest incorporated on 20 December 1991 and changed the name by referendum, a decision longtime residents took badly. The forest in the new name was the eucalyptus Dwight Whiting planted around the turn of the century, roughly 400 acres of it near Serrano Creek, as a lumber crop intended to draw development to a farm village that never came off.
Woodside El Toro is 109 homes on 22 acres and eight streets, with a median lot of 5,608 square feet, and the houses went up in the 1970s.
By the Numbers
Woodside-El Toro by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Woodside-El Toro lifestyle
Aliso Creek Trail runs through the community on the city's trail map.
Lake Forest keeps 31 parks open from dawn to dusk. The Lake Forest Sports Park and Recreation Center opened in November 2014 on 86 acres, with 57 of them given over to sports fields, and the city runs the largest free skatepark in Orange County at Etnies Skatepark.
Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park holds 1,575 acres of county open space against the north edge of the city, and the city's trail map carries 49 named trails.
Across the whole city the general plan sets 3,756 acres to residential use and 3,065 acres to open space and parks, which is why so much of Lake Forest reads as green from the ridgelines.
Schools
Schools serving Woodside-El Toro
The City of Lake Forest property record names Glen Yermo Elementary for all 115 addresses in Woodside-El Toro, with Serrano Intermediate for middle school and El Toro High for high school. There is no split at any level. All three are Saddleback Valley Unified campuses.
9-12 · 1,902 students
7-8 · 868 students
K-6 · 308 students
FAQs
Common questions about Woodside-El Toro
How big is Woodside-El Toro?
The community covers 21.5 acres on the city's published boundary and holds 109 homes on 115 parcels across eight streets. The median parcel measures 5,608 square feet.
When was Woodside-El Toro laid out?
One map covers the whole community. Tract 10009 was recorded on January 20, 1978 by Madole and Associates, Inc. under licensed surveyor J.M. Madole, filed at MM 424/24-28. The city's build year layer places 14.9 acres of building footprint in the 1971 to 1980 band.
Which schools serve Woodside-El Toro?
The city's property record names Glen Yermo Elementary, Serrano Intermediate and El Toro High for all 115 addresses inside the boundary, with no split at any level. All three are Saddleback Valley Unified campuses.
Is any of it in a flood zone?
Yes. The federal flood layer the city publishes places 2.4 of the 21.5 acres in zone AE, the one-percent-annual-chance floodplain, with 19.1 acres in zone X.
Is there a community pool?
No. The city's pool layer records 44 pools inside the boundary and every one is a private backyard pool, alongside 23 spas and sixteen solar installations.