Overview
About El Dorado Park Estates East
El Dorado Park Estates East is the smallest of the sixteen neighborhoods the City of Los Alamitos draws on Figure 2 of its Land Use Element, 5.7 acres in two separate pieces on the same map. The county records 40 parcels and 34 addresses inside them, on lots of about 0.18 acres, all zoned Single Family Residential.
No city street runs inside the boundary, so the homes take their frontage from streets the city draws outside it, and their sewer service comes from the City of Long Beach Water Department rather than from the Los Alamitos system. The county's federal 100 year flood layer maps 12.6 acres inside the city limit and none of it here. Los Alamitos Unified School District covers the neighborhood and enrolls 603 students at Los Alamitos Elementary, 1,017 at Oak Middle, 1,031 at McAuliffe Middle and 2,809 at Los Alamitos High at 3591 Cerritos Avenue.
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How El Dorado Park Estates East was built
This is the piece of Los Alamitos that lives with one foot in Long Beach. It takes its name from El Dorado Park, the large regional park immediately west across the city line. Thirty four homes on under six acres, with county construction years centered on 1969 and a few houses reaching back into the 1920s. El Dorado is the gilded one, the Spanish name for the city of gold the conquistadors went looking for and never found.
The pocket sits at the northwest corner of a city that filled in fast. Ross Cortese finished Rossmoor, three thousand four hundred homes behind a red brick wall, immediately southwest between 1955 and 1961, and Los Alamitos answered with Dutch Haven, Rossmoor Highlands and then Suburbia, New Dutch Haven, Greenbrook and College Park North through the 1960s. Cortese went on from Rossmoor to build Leisure World in Seal Beach, the first gated retirement community in the country.
By the Numbers
El Dorado Park Estates East by the numbers
Lifestyle
The El Dorado Park Estates East lifestyle
The city keeps 18 acres of public park across four neighborhood parks and five pocket parks. Little Cottonwood Park on Farquhar Avenue is the largest of them at 6.75 acres, with a basketball court, a sand volleyball court and a softball field. Coyote Creek Park opened in 2013 and turned a bare utility corridor into a 3.69 acre greenway along the Coyote Creek Channel.
Laurel Park runs to 4.33 acres on Bloomfield Street with a lighted multipurpose field and lighted tennis courts, and it has hosted the Los Alamitos Girls Softball League since 1974. The Aquatic Center, which the city leases and operates, is home to the USA Water Polo National Training Center and an outdoor 50 meter pool.
Schools
Schools serving El Dorado Park Estates East
Los Alamitos Unified School District covers the whole of El Dorado Park Estates East. The campuses below are the district's, with enrollment from the state's 2025-26 census day count. The district publishes no attendance boundary map, so confirm the assigned campus for a specific address with the district.
9-12 · 2,809 students
6-8 · 1,031 students
6-8 · 1,017 students
K-5 · 680 students
K-5 · 641 students
K-5 · 638 students
K-5 · 636 students
K-5 · 603 students
K-5 · 569 students
FAQs
Common questions about El Dorado Park Estates East
How big is El Dorado Park Estates East?
It is the smallest of the sixteen neighborhoods the City of Los Alamitos numbers on its own map, 5.7 acres drawn in two separate pieces. The county records 40 parcels and 34 addresses inside them, on lots of about 0.18 acres.
Why does the city draw this neighborhood in two pieces?
Because that is how it appears on Figure 2 of the city's Land Use Element, which shows two separate shapes under one name and one number. No public street runs inside either piece, so the homes take their frontage from streets outside the boundary.
Who provides sewer service to El Dorado Park Estates East?
The City of Long Beach Water Department, not the Los Alamitos system. The city's own utilities record names this neighborhood and the Bungalows as the two served that way. Water, refuse and other services follow the usual Los Alamitos providers, so confirm each utility separately for a specific address.
When were the homes here built?
Across a long stretch. The county carries a build year on 38 parcels inside the boundary, the earliest 1927 and the latest 1972, with half of them dated 1969 or before.
Which schools serve El Dorado Park Estates East?
Los Alamitos Unified School District covers all of it. The district enrolls 603 students at Los Alamitos Elementary on Bloomfield Street, 1,017 at Oak Middle on Oak Street, 1,031 at Sharon Christa McAuliffe Middle on Cerritos Avenue and 2,809 at Los Alamitos High at 3591 Cerritos Avenue. All nine of the district's comprehensive schools have been honored as National Blue Ribbon Schools, California Distinguished Schools, or both. The district publishes no attendance boundary map, so confirm the assigned campus for a specific address with the district.