Editing Coto de Caza, California (section)

==Education==
Most students in Coto de Caza reside in the [[Capistrano Unified School District]] and attend Tijeras Creek Elementary, Wagon Wheel Elementary, Las Flores Middle School, [[Tesoro High School]], and [[Santa Margarita Catholic High School]] (located at the North Gate and not part of Capistrano Unified).<ref name="school" /> St. John's Episcopal School and St. Junipero Serra Catholic School are private elementary and middle schools located outside the gates in nearby Rancho Santa Margarita.

The residents rebuffed an attempt to build a 400-student public school within the walls of the community.<ref name="school">{{cite news | title = Public School Plan Rattles Coto de Caza Residents | work = [[Los Angeles Times]] |author1=Linn Groves |author2=Liz Seymour |author3=Tina Nguyen | date = December 14, 1998 | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-dec-14-me-54042-story.html }}</ref> They had concerns that it would "undermine the privacy and security" of the enclave, that it would be "downright illegal [to place a public school on a gated private property]", that it would force admission of large numbers of non-residents to the community, and that an eventual lawsuit would force the removal of the gates.<ref name="school" /> The reason for proposal was that Wagon Wheel Elementary School, which is located immediately outside the community gates, had far more students than planned.<ref name="school" /> The school equipment was to consist of 20 portable buildings which would have simply been added to Wagon Wheel if the new school's construction could not be completed.<ref name="school" /> Had it been built, it would have become the first public school to be built inside the limits of a gated community.<ref name="school" />