Sequoia Elementary

As an average-sized elementary-level community in Westminster, California, Sequoia Elementary hosts 440 students from grades K through 6, overseen by Westminster.

Sequoia Elementary is one of 16 schools operated by Westminster, a district that hosts 7,864 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Sequoia Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 29% Asian, 14% White, 8% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.4:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Sequoia Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.7%, the actual is 52.9%, a residual of +8.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Orange County put the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Sequoia Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Eastwood Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sequoia Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 60.0%.

Sequoia Elementary operates from a suburban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 6%: 470 students in 2018 compared to 440 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 23% to 14%.

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