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Mesa, Arizona - 2 schools
An equity score of 26/100 ranks Edkey Inc. - Sequoia Choice Schools (4329) #288 of 437 districts in Arizona (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $6,722 per pupil, Edkey Inc. - Sequoia Choice Schools (4329) ranks #621 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
3,623
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$6,722
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Edkey Inc. - Sequoia Choice Schools (4329) operates 2 public schools serving 3,623 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Arizona. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Maricopa County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $6,722 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 64 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending. See how Arizona compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 0.1% local, 90.3% state, and 9.6% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 26/100, ranked #288 of 437 in Arizona against a state average of 38, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 701.4:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, . Demographically, the student body averages 54.5% Hispanic or Latino, 32.6% White, 5.9% African American across the district's schools.
Sequoia Choice School Arizona Distance Learning School accounts for 47.2% of all Edkey Inc. - Sequoia Choice Schools (4329) student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Edkey Inc. - Sequoia Choice Schools (4329) a distant remainder — means Edkey Inc. - Sequoia Choice Schools (4329)-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Edkey Inc. - Sequoia Choice Schools (4329) student-counselor ratio is 701:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to Edkey Inc. - Sequoia Choice Schools (4329)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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