Rancho Santa Margarita Intermediate
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA · Middle School · Grades 7-8
Rancho Santa Margarita Intermediate is a middle school in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA with 1,041 students enrolled and a 63% proficiency rate. Part of Saddleback Valley Unified. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Rancho Santa Margarita Intermediate is a middle school located in Rancho Santa Margarita, California. The school serves 1,041 students in grades 7-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 23.1:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 63% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
34% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Rancho Santa Margarita Intermediate is part of the Saddleback Valley Unified in California.
How This School Compares
Rancho Santa Margarita Intermediate has 1,041 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Saddleback Valley Unified (717 students). Its 63% proficiency rate is 12 percentage points above the district average of 52%. Compared to the California state average of 45%, the school performs 18 points higher. The 23.1:1 student-teacher ratio is above the national average of 16:1.
Frequently Asked Questions
Rancho Santa Margarita Intermediate has 1,041 students enrolled in grades 7-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 23.1:1.
According to EDFacts data, 63% of students at Rancho Santa Margarita Intermediate meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Rancho Santa Margarita Intermediate is part of the Saddleback Valley Unified in Rancho Santa Margarita, California. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
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Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.