Sequoia Middle

Set in Redding, California, Sequoia Middle is a compact junior high, overseen by Redding Elementary. It serves 461 students across grades 4 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 30% below typical.

Redding Elementary comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 2,958 students; Sequoia Middle is among them.

On demographics, Sequoia Middle reports that the largest single group is White, at 55% of enrollment; the rest looks like 22% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 6% Native American, 5% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 78%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.5:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Shasta County's rate of about 58%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sequoia Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.9%, the actual is 33.1%, a residual of -1.9 points.

In the area at large, Shasta County reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,636 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Shasta County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,639 students), of which Sequoia Middle is one.

Cypress Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sequoia Middle. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sequoia Middle ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.6%.

Sequoia Middle operates from a downtown location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 27%: 631 students in 2018 compared to 461 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 67% to 55% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 today.

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