Sequoia High: This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.
Sequoia posts 43% meeting the standard against 36% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Grad rate | College readiness | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 39 | 22% | 43% | 83.6% | 0.8% | 25.6% | 3.0% |
| CA average · High School | 44 | 16% | 36% | 87.6% | 35.4% | 30.2% | 3.6% |
Sequoia High scores 39 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 36th percentile of 2,160 California high schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🌱 Building Momentum — This label means the data doesn't clearly sort the school one way or the other — ask what the school is proud of, and what it's working on.
Most rating sites would stop at “43% proficient” and call it done. Sequoia deserves a closer read. The school sits in Redwood City, where one in three students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Slipped from the 46th to the 36th percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 43% meet the standard today, versus 52% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 60% | 63% | 65% | 54% | 54% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 45% | 40% | 38% | 29% | 32% |
The story this school is actually telling
Of 100 students here: 43 are proficient by 11th grade → 84 graduate → 1 pass an AP exam. The gaps between those bars are the questions to ask.
The 7 things our score weighs
Ask how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.
- Ask what share of students complete the full college-prep course sequence, and who gets steered into it.
- Ask whether the tour can step into a working classroom — watch how the teacher handles a student who's stuck.
- Ask to tour while school's in session, and notice how hallways and transitions feel — culture shows up between classes, not just in them.
- Ask how the school communicates with families when a child starts to struggle.
- Ask what a typical day looks like for a new student in the first few weeks.
How every group of students does here
At Sequoia High in Redwood City, 33.2% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 37.0% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Sequoia High trails its district average for low-income students by 3.9 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (9.9% Math proficient); Hispanic students (36.0% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 47.8 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 193 students tested.
7 of 16 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Showing up, and staying in class
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
These measure different things: this figure is spending attributed to this campus, while district-wide figures also include central administration, districtwide programs, and the state's pension contributions made on the district's behalf — costs that never get assigned to a single school. The district number runs higher at nearly every school, not just this one.
$850 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.
The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.
District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.
Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →
The neighborhood it serves
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
On the state's science test (CAST), 32% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
Frequently asked questions
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Your other options
Nearby High Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 27
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 68
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
A low score doesn't tell the whole story. Read: Your School Scored Low — Here's What That Actually Means
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 418 | 26% | 28% | 20% | 25% | 54% | +7 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 416 | 18% | 14% | 18% | 50% | 32% | +9 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 471 | 11% | 21% | 57% | 11% |
CAST is tested in grades 5, 8, and once in high school — not annually. Not part of the Scope Score.
| Subgroup · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 193 | 33.2% | −4 | −5 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 233 | 36.0% | −6 | −3 |
| White | 146 | 82.9% | −2 | +21 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sequoia High ← | — | 39 | 22.3% | 43.1% | — | 3.0% |
| Summit Preparatory Charter High | 1.5 mi | 39 | 13.0% | 30.7% | — | 4.0% |
| Redwood High | 0.7 mi | 15 | 0.0% | 6.3% | — | 8.4% |
| California average | — | 44 | 15.8% | 35.7% | — | 3.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 45 | 46 | #1108 | 28.8% | 52.3% | 18.6% | 6.5% | — |
| 2022 | 43 | 47 | #1109 | 26.0% | 51.2% | 27.0% | 3.7% | — |
| 2023 | 43 | 48 | #1111 | 28.3% | 51.5% | 25.6% | 5.1% | — |
| 2024 | 39 | 37 | #1345 | 20.8% | 41.2% | 27.1% | 4.2% | — |
| 2025 | 39 | 36 | #1377 | 22.3% | 43.1% | 25.6% | 3.0% | — |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 18.7% | 24.0% | +5.3pp |
| Male | 17.9% | 26.7% | +8.8pp |
| Asian | 2.9% | 5.4% | +2.5pp |
| Black/African American | 18.8% | 37.5% | +18.7pp |
| White | 2.9% | 15.4% | +12.5pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 23.7% | 33.0% | +9.3pp |
| Pacific Islander | 20.0% | 43.8% | +23.8pp |
| Two or More Races | 13.6% | 12.7% | -0.9pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 33.7% | 42.3% | +8.6pp |
| English Learners | 31.1% | 43.6% | +12.5pp |
| Homeless | 36.8% | 50.0% | +13.2pp |
| Military-Connected | 14.8% | 22.2% | +7.4pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 24.3% | 34.5% | +10.2pp |
| All Students | 18.3% | 25.4% | +7.1pp |
| American Indian/Alaska Native | — | 45.5% | — |
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