Sequoia Choice School Arizona Distance Learning School

Set in Mesa, Arizona, Sequoia Choice School Arizona Distance Learning School is a high-enrollment K-12 campus, one of the schools within Edkey Inc. - Sequoia Choice Schools (4329). It teaches 1,711 students across grades K through 12. That puts it 211% bigger than the typical public school in Arizona, which averages around 550 students.

Across the 2 schools in Edkey Inc. - Sequoia Choice Schools (4329) (2,313 students total), Sequoia Choice School Arizona Distance Learning School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Sequoia Choice School Arizona Distance Learning School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 31% White, 7% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Native American. By comparison, Maricopa County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 34.9:1. The state averages around 21.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Maricopa County indicate the typical household earns roughly $89,300 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Maricopa County's 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), Sequoia Choice School Arizona Distance Learning School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Edkey Inc. - Sequoia Deaf School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a metropolitan site. Sequoia Choice School Arizona Distance Learning School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools. Sequoia Choice School Arizona Distance Learning School delivers learning online rather than in a traditional classroom setting.

Five-year trend. Sequoia Choice School Arizona Distance Learning School's enrollment has ticked up 194% since 2018, when it stood at 581 (now 1,711). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 68% to 31%.

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