Overview
About St Michel
St Michel covers 19.37 acres of Newport Coast in 4 separate parts on the boundary the City of Newport Beach publishes for it, and the city address layer records 174 addresses inside that line across 12 streets. Twelve streets, all of them French. Clermont carries thirty six of the addresses, ahead of Versailles, Trouville, Belfort, Menton, Chaminade, Hertford, Limoges, Villeneuve, Montreaux, Grenelle and Deauville. The median of the 182 parcels the city draws here runs 4,400 square feet. The city records 174 buildings inside the boundary carrying 172 dwelling units, and the city registry marks the association gated.
The median parcel the city draws inside St Michel measures 4,400 square feet, the smallest of the twenty eight associations Newport Coast files, and the association is drawn in four separate parts. The city land use layer files most of the ground as Planning Area 3 - Residential Medium High Density. Newport-Mesa Unified serves the whole boundary, 19.4 acres on the county district clip. The district locator, probed once per 300 foot grid cell inside the boundary, returns Newport Coast Elementary and Corona del Mar Middle and High School.
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How St Michel was built
Building here ran from 1993 to 1999, one of the longer construction spans in Newport Coast, and it followed the 1988 agreement that protected more than 6,000 acres of continuous open space and released 1,600 acres. The toll road opened in November 1996 with an exit at Newport Coast Drive, and everything here was annexed into the City of Newport Beach on January 1, 2002.
The twelve streets are a tour of France. Versailles for the palace. Limoges for the porcelain. Menton for the lemon town on the Italian border. Trouville and Deauville, which sit facing each other across the mouth of the same Normandy river and have argued about which is smarter since the 1860s. Then Clermont, Belfort, Villeneuve, Montreaux, Chaminade and Grenelle, which is a quarter of Paris. Hertford is the odd one out, an English county town that somehow slipped into a French street plan.
By the Numbers
St Michel by the numbers
Lifestyle
The St Michel lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving St Michel
Newport-Mesa Unified serves St Michel. Clipping the county school district layer to this boundary returns 19.4 acres in Newport-Mesa Unified and none in any other district. The district’s own school locator was probed at 18 real addresses inside the boundary, one to each 300 foot grid cell rather than at a handful of interior points, and returned the same campuses at every address it answered for. Newport Coast Elementary, 6655 Ridge Park Road, Newport Beach, teaches grades TK-6 and the federal count recorded 429 students there in 2024-25. Corona del Mar Middle and High School share one campus at 2101 Eastbluff Drive, teaching grades 7 through 12, and the federal count records the two together at 2,106 students.
TK-6 · 429 students
7-12 · 2,106 students
FAQs
Common questions about St Michel
How big is St Michel?
The City of Newport Beach draws St Michel as 4 parts covering 19.37 acres, measured against the city’s own published polygon rather than any acreage attribute. The shape runs 16,361 feet around and fills 63.6 percent of its own convex hull, which is a measure of how compact it is.
How many homes are in St Michel?
The city address layer records 174 addresses inside the boundary and the city building layer records 174 buildings carrying 172 dwelling units between them. The city registry lists 174 residential units for the association. Those three counts agree closely.
Is St Michel gated, and what streets does it hold?
The city registry records the association as gated. The address layer names 12 streets inside the boundary. They are Clermont, Versailles, Trouville, Belfort, Menton, Chaminade, Hertford and Limoges and others.
Which schools serve St Michel?
Newport-Mesa Unified. The county district layer clipped to this boundary returns 19.4 acres in Newport-Mesa Unified, with no part in another district. The district’s school locator, probed at 18 addresses inside the boundary one to each 300 foot grid cell, returned Newport Coast Elementary for grades TK-6 and Corona del Mar Middle and High School for grades 7 through 12 at every one it answered. Newport Coast Elementary enrolled 429 students in the 2024-25 federal count and Corona del Mar 2,106.
When was St Michel built?
The first tract map, TR 14617, was recorded on June 15, 1993 at map book page MM 699/5-13, and the last of the 2, TR 14902, on September 6, 1994. The Keith Companies engineered the first map. Newport Coast was unincorporated county land at the time and Newport Beach annexed it in 2002. A recorded map is the filing date for the subdivision rather than a construction date for any one home.