# Sequoia Jr. High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060363007099`
- **School name**: Sequoia Jr. High
- **Location**: Bakersfield, CA 93304
- **Address**: 900 Belle Terr.
- **District**: Bakersfield City (LEAID `0603630`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 35.34764, -119.01293
- **Phone**: (661)631-5940
- **Website**: http://sequoia.bcsd.com

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 746
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 34
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 97.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Red
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Blue
  - math: Red
  - ela: Orange
  - chronic_absent: Red

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 31.2% proficient — 688 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 25.9% (208 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.3% (81 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.4% (18 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 86.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.3%
- **Asian**: 7.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 1.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 96.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.6% — 86 students
- **English Learners**: 28.5% — 212 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 88 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,690
- **Federal share**: $3,749
- **State + local share**: $15,941
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 744
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,118,232
- **Federal share**: 15.7%
- **State share**: 77.8%
- **Local share**: 6.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,808,723

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $46,161
- **Poverty rate**: 28.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 8.0%
- **Unemployment**: 7.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,111
- **Foreign-born residents**: 16.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 25.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 14.7 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 30
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.93 miles (624 4TH STREET)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 15.6697 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Wayside Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 23.9% (this school: 25.9%)
- **Vista Continuation High** — 0.7 mi away, 4.29% (this school: 25.9%)
- **Roosevelt Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 23.2% (this school: 25.9%)
- **Fremont Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 17.6% (this school: 25.9%)
- **Casa Loma Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 22.2% (this school: 25.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **McKinley Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 47.25% (this school: 34.6%)
- **Roosevelt Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 37.9% (this school: 34.6%)
- **Evergreen Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 51.4% (this school: 34.6%)
- **Frank West Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 36.65% (this school: 34.6%)
- **Bakersfield High** — 1.6 mi away, 37.95% (this school: 34.6%)

### math proficiency
- **McKinley Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Roosevelt Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Evergreen Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Frank West Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Bakersfield High** — 1.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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