Summary:
ZIP code 98248 has five elementary schools in the Ferndale School District, serving grades from prekindergarten through eighth grade. Four schools primarily serve K–5 students, while Mountain View Elementary serves PK–8. Enrollment ranges from 101 students at Mountain View to 496 at Skyline Elementary School. Across the four schools with available test results, science is the strongest subject, while math and English language arts results are generally lower.
Central Elementary is the strongest overall performer. It ranks 500th of 1,138 Washington schools and leads the other schools in all-grade ELA, math, and science proficiency, with results of 47.48%, 48.92%, and 60.00%. Central also improved substantially over the past three years and was the only school listed with a 3-star rating. Skyline Elementary School is the next strongest overall, ranking 645th, and stands out for science: 59.55% of students were proficient, above the statewide result. Skyline also improved in its latest ranking. These two schools offer the strongest academic results in the area based on the available data.
Cascadia Elementary has mixed results but showed recent improvement in ELA and science, ranking 801st statewide. Eagleridge Elementary ranks lowest, at 967th, and experienced declines in all three subjects; math was its greatest challenge, with 24.46% proficiency. Mountain View Elementary has the smallest enrollment and lowest student-teacher ratio, but no test-score data were supplied, so it should not be academically ranked against the other schools. Districtwide, Ferndale ranks at the 34th percentile among Washington districts, making differences between individual schools especially important for families comparing options.
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