NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools WA

Best-Resourced Schools in Ferndale, WA

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10 public K-12 schools in Ferndale from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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10
Schools
4,223
Students
43/100
Avg Resource Index
15.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Ferndale has more public-school enrollment than 47% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Ferndale sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Ferndale's list includes 3 elementary, 2 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, plus 3 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Ferndale lists only 10 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 20 to 1,325 students, a 66-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 53%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
60th percentile
Teacher staffing
48th percentile

Ferndale High School accounts for 31.4% of all Ferndale public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Ferndale-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Ferndale school enrollment varies 66× across entities

Ferndale school enrollment ranges from 20 students (lowest) to 1,325 students (highest), a spread of 1,305 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Ferndale operates one school district — a single-district system

Ferndale's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Ferndale student-teacher ratio is 15.5:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Ferndale is typically wider than the Ferndale-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Central Elementary 51
2. Eagleridge Elementary 50
3. Cascadia Elementary 45
4. Horizon Middle School 43
5. Ferndale High School 42
6. Vista Middle School 42
7. Skyline Elementary School 41
8. Ferndale Virtual Academy 30
9. Ferndale Re-Engagement -
10. Ferndale Special Services -

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Ferndale

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Skyline Elementary School 70.9/100
  2. 2 Eagleridge Elementary 68.3/100
  3. 3 Vista Middle School 66.8/100
  4. 4 Cascadia Elementary 66.6/100
  5. 5 Horizon Middle School 63.8/100

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Which Ferndale school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Central Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Ferndale schools in this federal-data comparison at 51/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Ferndale, WA? ▼

Ferndale has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,223 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.5:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.