Summary:
ZIP code 93244 has two schools: Sequoia Elementary Charter, serving kindergarten through grade 7, and Sequoia Union Elementary, serving grade 8. Their different grade spans make direct schoolwide comparisons less useful than comparing each grade with state results. The clearest concern is eighth-grade ELA at Sequoia Union Elementary: 35% of students were proficient, versus 49% statewide, a 14-point gap.
Sequoia Elementary Charter stands out for stronger elementary-grade results: its ELA proficiency was above the state in grades 3–5, and its fifth-grade science result was 45%, compared with 35% statewide, a 10-point lead. Results were not uniformly high: its grade 7 math was 30%, 8 points below the state. At Sequoia Union Elementary, eighth-grade math was 9 points below the state and science was 3 points below. The reported all-grades figures also favor the charter, but the schools serve different grades.
Recent trends favor the charter overall, while ELA at the grade-8 school moved in the opposite direction. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Sequoia Elementary Charter improved by 6 points in ELA, 6 in math, and 15 in science; Sequoia Union Elementary gained 3 points in math and 6 in science but fell 12 points in ELA. SchoolDigger’s ranking rose from the 45th to the 63rd percentile for the charter and fell from the 77th to the 43rd percentile for the grade-8 school. The charter has 345 students and a 19 student-teacher ratio; the grade-8 school has 43 students and a 7.4 ratio. Their 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were similar—48% and 49%—while 2025–2026 chronic absenteeism differed: 8% at the charter and 20% at the grade-8 school.
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