Sequoia Elementary

Located at 710 Martha St., in Manteca, California, Sequoia Elementary is a substantial elementary campus that caters to 814 students (grades K through 8), overseen by Manteca Unified. That puts it 75% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Manteca Unified runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 25,347 students. Sequoia Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Sequoia Elementary lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 77%; the rest is composed of 10% White, 6% Asian, 3% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Sequoia Elementary has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 29.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 78% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, San Joaquin County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sequoia Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 33.3%; Sequoia Elementary posts 17.9%, -15.4 points below that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for San Joaquin County indicate median household income runs about $92,179, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, San Joaquin County runs 251 public schools (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students), of which Sequoia Elementary is one.

Manteca Online Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sequoia Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sequoia Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 33.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Sequoia Elementary's enrollment has increased 4% since 2018, when it stood at 786 (now 814). The Asian share of enrollment ticked up from 2% to 6% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 27.7:1 in 2018 to 29.7:1 in 2025.

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