Sequoia Middle

Sequoia Middle is a middle-grades school of average-sized scale in Newbury Park, California, part of Conejo Valley Unified, teacheing 798 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 21% bigger than typical.

Across the 26 schools in Conejo Valley Unified (15,713 students total), Sequoia Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Sequoia Middle logs that 45% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 38% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 6% multiracial.

On the resource side, Sequoia Middle records 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. About 31% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ventura County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sequoia Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.1%, the actual is 51.1%, a residual of -9.9 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Ventura County) shows that median household earnings sit near $109,797, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Sequoia Middle is one of 238 public schools in Ventura County (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students).

Env Acad of Research Tech and Earth Scis is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sequoia Middle ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 61.8%.

Sequoia Middle operates from a city-core location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 22%: 1,027 students in 2018 compared to 798 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 57% to 45% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.8:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 in 2025.

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