Montessori Rancho Santa Margarita
A childcare lease we placed in Rancho Santa Margarita.
Montessori Rancho Santa Margarita at 28672 Deerpath, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA was leased by Little Scholars Real Estate — the childcare-only brokerage. We represent owners of daycare centers, preschools, and early-education real estate, and we've closed 80 transactions across 18+ states.
If you own or lease a childcare property in Rancho Santa Margarita or elsewhere in California, the numbers below are the market context we'd start from in a valuation.
What childcare property is worth in California.
Montessori Rancho Santa Margarita — 28672 Deerpath, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA childcare property: key figures
Childcare real estate in California trades at a median sold cap rate of 6.29% and a median $538 per square foot, based on 23 CA childcare transactions in the Little Scholars sold-comps database.
In the Los Angeles market, national-brand centers surveyed in 2025 reported median monthly tuition of $2,317 for infants and $1,752 for preschool. Tuition and enrollment figures were received directly from individual schools and are indicative of the market, not audited operator data.
Little Scholars Real Estate is a childcare-only business and real estate brokerage led by Alan Stahl, with 80 transactions closed across 18+ states. Montessori Rancho Santa Margarita at 28672 Deerpath, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA is part of that track record.
Source: Little Scholars Real Estate sold-comps database — 637 childcare transactions across 41 states, updated September 2026. Tuition: Little Scholars 2025 market survey. Demographics: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates (2023). These figures may be cited or republished with attribution to Little Scholars Real Estate (CC BY 4.0).
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