Summary:
Zip code 93291 has three high schools in Visalia Unified: Redwood High and Sequoia High serve grades 9–12, while Creekside Community Day serves grades 7–12. Creekside has no numeric test results in the supplied data, so academic comparisons cover Redwood and Sequoia only. The clearest finding is a sharp academic divide between those two schools: in 2025–26, Redwood led Sequoia by 62 percentage points in ELA, 35 in math, and 53 in science.
Redwood stands out for its reported achievement and completion results: it scored 71% in ELA, 35% in math, and 54% in science, while Sequoia scored 8%, 0%, and 1%, respectively. Redwood’s graduation rate was 99%, compared with Sequoia’s 82% and the state’s 88%; chronic absenteeism was 11% at Redwood and 82% at Sequoia, versus 18% statewide. SchoolDigger ranked Redwood 430th of 2,137 schools, in the 80th percentile with 4 stars; Sequoia ranked 2,079th, in the 3rd percentile with 0 stars.
Recent trends offer a reason to look beyond a single year: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, Redwood’s ELA score fell 10 percentage points, math was nearly flat, and science rose 5; Sequoia declined by 3 points in ELA, 2 in math, and 4 in science, while state scores rose in all three subjects. Redwood’s all-grades math score is below the state’s (35% versus 38%), but its grade 11 result is above the grade 11 state result (35% versus 32%). School contexts also differ: in sy 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 48% at Redwood, 81% at Sequoia, and 94% at Creekside; student–teacher ratios were 24, 14.6, and 8.6, respectively. These are context, not explanations for school results.
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