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Quick Facts
Awards Academic Excellence Award (2007)
Special features before- and after- school care
Dress code No dress code

School Mission
  • Sequoia is a fine model of an urban learning community, serving Kindergarten through 5th Grade, with 16 self-contained classrooms and one Special Day Class for students designated as Severely Emotionally Disturbed. Sequoia reflects a richly diverse community, culturally, ethnically, and socio-economically. It is our mission to provide a powerful education to all students, enabling them to become effective, contributing citizens to our democratic society.

Curriculum
  • Special education programs designed specifically for students with autism, serious emotional disturbance, hearing impairments, language or speech impairment, specific learning disabilities, limited intellectual functioning, orthopedic impairments, visual impairments, multiple disabilities and other health impairments.
  • This school has a particular instructional focus on hands-on learning, project-based instruction.
  • Physical education is required for the following grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
 
 
Activities and Sports
  • Clubs and extra-curricular activities include: Child Development Center: Kindergarten-Third Grade and Healthy Start---After School Program for students in grades 1st-5th.
  • This school has the following art(s) programs: orchestra, band, chorus, drawing/painting and dance.
 
 
Technology and Facilities
  • This school was established between 1920-1929.
 
 
Other Features and Highlights
  • 81-85% of students remained enrolled at the school between last school year and this school year.
  • This school has an emphasis in visual arts.
  • Regular classroom hours: 8:30 to 3:00.
 
 
Volunteer requests

Category: fundraisers/special events

Description: TrackMeets during Lunch Time for 1st-5th grade students

  • Contact name: Kyla Trammell
  • Contact phone: 510-879-1510
  • Contact email: Kyla.Johnson@ousd.k12.ca.us

Source of Data
Additional information, including curriculum and special programs, was either submitted to GreatSchools by a school official or comes directly from the school or school district's Web site. This page was last updated on 10/08/2007. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of information submitted by school officials.  

 
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