Sequoia Middle

Sequoia Middle operates as a mid-tier 6-8 campus in Fontana, California, run under Fontana Unified. Current enrollment sits at 791 students spanning grades 7 through 8. That puts it 20% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Within Fontana Unified, which oversees 44 schools and 32,735 students, Sequoia Middle is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Sequoia Middle reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against San Bernardino County (around 74%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Sequoia Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.6%; this one delivers 27.0%.

Around the school, census data for San Bernardino County shows median household income runs about $85,478, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Sequoia Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Live Oak Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sequoia Middle. On composite proficiency, Sequoia Middle comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 28.7%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sequoia Middle has fell 31%, going from 1,154 students in 2018 to 791 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.4:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 in 2025.

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