# Sequoia Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sequoia-elementary-shafter/llm*

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062145010810`
- **School name**: Sequoia Elementary
- **Location**: Shafter, CA 93263
- **Address**: 500 East Fresno Ave.
- **District**: Richland Union Elementary (LEAID `0621450`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 35.51529, -119.26797
- **Phone**: (661)746-8740
- **Website**: https://www.sequoiabears.com

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 534
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 32
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 89.3%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 36.5% proficient — 291 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 26.1% (162 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 30.5% (182 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.4% (32 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.3% (2 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**: 87.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.8% — 81 students
- **English Learners**: 25.9% — 152 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 33 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 19 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 18 students
- **Autism**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,778
- **Federal share**: $9,219
- **State + local share**: $12,559
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 588
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,208,015
- **Federal share**: 18.6%
- **State share**: 63.9%
- **Local share**: 17.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,290,076

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $76,176
- **Poverty rate**: 14.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 8.2%
- **Unemployment**: 13.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,623
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 33.1 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 16.36 miles (PROPOSED VALLEY OAKS CHARTER SCHOOL EXPANSION)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.9442 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 15.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Central Valley High (Continuation)** — 0.5 mi away, 4.21% (this school: 26.1%)
- **Shafter High** — 0.5 mi away, 0.24% (this school: 26.1%)
- **Redwood Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 19.3% (this school: 26.1%)
- **Richland Junior High** — 1.0 mi away, 25.7% (this school: 26.1%)
- **Golden Oak Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 16.4% (this school: 26.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Shafter High** — 0.5 mi away, 42.05% (this school: 36.5%)
- **Golden Oak Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 47.25% (this school: 36.5%)
- **Grow Academy Shafter** — 2.0 mi away, 48.3% (this school: 36.5%)
- **Rio Bravo Elementary** — 6.5 mi away, 58.05% (this school: 36.5%)
- **Rio Bravo-Greeley Elementary** — 6.6 mi away, 59% (this school: 36.5%)

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