Overview
About Mission Sunrise
Mission Sunrise covers 49.3 acres and records 227 addresses on 227 parcels with no unit designators, at a median lot of 0.115 acres. Eight streets run 1.38 miles inside the boundary: Amberwood, Fairgreen, Larkspur, Meadowbrook, Misty, Somerset, Tamarind and Whitespring. All 49.2 classified acres sit at 3.5 to 6.5 homes an acre under Residential Planned Development zoning.
The whole boundary lies in flood zone X. Capistrano Unified serves it, and the district's address locator returns Philip J. Reilly Elementary at 421 students, Fred Newhart Middle at 1,105 and Capistrano Valley High at 1,991 from every interior point tested.
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How Mission Sunrise was built
Mission Sunrise, formally registered as the Mission Sunrise Ridge Homeowners Association, is a small 227-home neighborhood on streets named for plants and English gardens: Amberwood, Fairgreen, Larkspur, Meadowbrook, Misty, Somerset, Tamarind and Whitespring. The homeowners association's own registration dates the HOA to 1986, meaning the tract was finished, or close to it, in one tight window rather than being built out over many years. A rental listing for one of the Amberwood homes notes that the property includes a Lake Mission Viejo membership, so this is one of the neighborhoods whose lake access came bundled in from the start rather than added later.
That window landed at a hinge point in the city's own history. The Mission Viejo Company finished the 20,000th home across the whole planned community in 1986, and the very next year, 1987, Mission Viejo voters approved cityhood, ahead of incorporation on 31 March 1988. Mission Sunrise went up right around that stretch, among the last neighborhoods raised while Mission Viejo was still an unincorporated community rather than a city with its own government.
By the Numbers
Mission Sunrise by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Mission Sunrise lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving Mission Sunrise
Capistrano Unified serves Mission Sunrise, and the district's address locator returns Philip J. Reilly Elementary, Fred Newhart Middle and Capistrano Valley High at every interior point tested. Enrollment below is the 2024-25 federal count.
9-12 · 1,991 students
6-8 · 1,105 students
K-5 · 421 students
FAQs
Common questions about Mission Sunrise
Who developed Mission Sunrise?
The Mission Viejo Company. Its name appears in the owner's certificate on Tract 10311, recorded in February 1982, signing alongside the Santa Margarita Water District.
When was Mission Sunrise built?
In two campaigns. Five tract maps were recorded in 1982 under Jack G. Raub and six more between 1986 and 1987 under Kevin D. McHugh, so the community took shape across six years.
What kind of homes are here?
The city's record shows 227 addresses on 227 parcels with no unit designators, so the ground is laid out one home to a lot rather than as condominiums, at a median lot of 0.115 acres.
Who maintains the common landscape?
Tract 10311 states that its three lettered lots are not separate building sites and grants them in fee to the homeowners association of the tract. The other ten maps here follow the same arrangement.
Which schools serve Mission Sunrise?
Capistrano Unified, and the district's address locator returns Philip J. Reilly Elementary with 421 students, Fred Newhart Middle with 1,105 and Capistrano Valley High with 1,991 at every interior point tested.