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 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 El Diablo and its colors are scarlet and gold. 230 credits are required to graduate from Mission Viejo High School. As of the 2005–06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,997 students and 110 classroom teachers (on a FTE basis, for a student-teacher ratio of 27.2.
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