Sequoia Charter School
MESA · AZ · Edkey Inc. dba Sequoia Charter School (6446) · Public charter · K-12 combined
📄 Shareable scorecard →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Sequoia Charter School compares for families
What families should know about Sequoia Charter School.
- ▸ LocallyAZ sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Edkey Inc. - Sequoia Deaf School, Sequoia Choice School Arizona Distance Learning School, EDUPRIZE SCHOOL Gilbert and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +28.9%/year, projecting from 2024's 764 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $10,452 per student in district revenue, the 1,951 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $20,391,852/year in additional funding.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edkey Inc. - Sequoia Deaf School MESA |
Public · charter | 0.0 | 25 | — |
| Sequoia Choice School Arizona Distance Learning School Mesa |
Public · charter | 0.0 | 922 | +60.6% |
| EDUPRIZE SCHOOL Gilbert GILBERT |
Public · charter | 1.1 | 202 | -14.4% |
| EVIT - Mesa High School MESA |
Public | 1.2 | 10 | — |
| Mesa High School MESA |
Public | 1.3 | 3,233 | -4.1% |
| International Commerce High School MCG Mesa |
Public · charter | 1.5 | 50 | — |
| Pathways School Gilbert |
Private | 2.0 | 117 | — |
| Heritage Academy MESA |
Public · charter | 2.1 | 496 | +0.2% |