# Sequoia High

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sequoia-high-merced

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062466011689`
- **School name**: Sequoia High
- **Location**: Merced, CA 95340
- **Address**: 1900 G St.
- **District**: Merced Union High (LEAID `0624660`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.29919, -120.47293
- **Phone**: (209)325-1700
- **Website**: http://shs.muhsd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 77
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 8
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Red
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Red
  - math: Red
  - college_career: Red
  - ela: Red
  - graduation: Red

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 123.4% (116 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.7% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 22.6% (24 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 96.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 1.9% — 2 students
- **English Learners**: 12.3% — 13 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $35,926
- **Federal share**: $5,721
- **State + local share**: $30,205
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 106
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,884,048
- **Federal share**: 13.0%
- **State share**: 67.1%
- **Local share**: 19.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,409,233

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $39,042
- **Poverty rate**: 39.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.2%
- **Unemployment**: 12.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,197
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 27.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.9 miles (CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE 6 AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 15
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.71 miles (FORMER SIMPSON CLEANER S PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF MERCED
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.83439 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Independence High (Alternative)** — 0.1 mi away, 4.35% (this school: 5.66%)
- **Golden Valley High** — 1.4 mi away, 4.71% (this school: 5.66%)
- **Buhach Colony High** — 6.5 mi away, 3.26% (this school: 5.66%)
- **Merced County Juvenile Court** — 8.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 5.66%)
- **Atwater High** — 9.2 mi away, 4.1% (this school: 5.66%)

### ela proficiency
- **Independence High (Alternative)** — 0.1 mi away, 28.5% (this school: 20%)
- **Charles Wright Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 37.45% (this school: 20%)
- **Don Stowell Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 24.3% (this school: 20%)
- **Herbert Hoover Middle** — 0.6 mi away, 52.7% (this school: 20%)
- **John Muir Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 34.6% (this school: 20%)

### math proficiency
- **Charles Wright Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Herbert Hoover Middle** — 0.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Merced County Special Education** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Ada Givens Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Merced High** — 1.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sequoia-high-merced
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sequoia-high-merced/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sequoia-high-merced/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sequoia-high-merced/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sequoia-high-merced/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sequoia-high-merced/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sequoia-high-merced/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sequoia-high-merced/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sequoia-high-merced/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sequoia-high-merced/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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