Sequoia High School

Sequoia High School is one of the rural-scale secondary schools in Everett, Washington, overseen by Everett School District, with 145 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 75% below the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 573 students.

Across the 32 schools in Everett School District (20,489 students total), Sequoia High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Sequoia High School records that 52% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 23% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Snohomish County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. Roughly 68% of students at Sequoia High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Snohomish County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Snohomish County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $111,246 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Snohomish County's 227 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,688 students), Sequoia High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Port Gardner, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sequoia High School.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sequoia High School has fell 20%, going from 182 students in 2018 to 145 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 60% to 52% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 9.3:1 in 2018 to 7.8:1 in 2025.

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