Summary:
ZIP code 98248, in the Ferndale area of Washington, has two high schools serving grades 9–12: Ferndale High School and Ferndale Re-Engagement, both part of the Ferndale School District.
Ferndale High School is the area’s comprehensive high school and serves nearly all of the 1,358 students enrolled across the two schools. It has 1,325 students, an 89.2% graduation rate, and a 5.5% dropout rate. Both results are better than district and Washington state comparisons. Academically, English Language Arts is its strongest area: 63.29% of students were proficient, compared with 52.81% statewide. Science proficiency was 52.36%, slightly above the state, while math was 39.73%, below the statewide 43.11%. Math nevertheless improved by 4.38 percentage points over the previous year, and ELA also increased. The school’s ranking improved from the 58th percentile to the 69th percentile over the three reported years, suggesting positive recent momentum.
Ferndale Re-Engagement is a much smaller, specialized program with 33 students, compared with 1,325 at the main high school. Its reported free-and-reduced-price lunch rate is 75.76%, versus 45.51% at Ferndale High School, indicating that the programs serve different student needs. Graduation, dropout, and test-score results were not reported for the re-engagement school, so parents should not interpret the missing information as poor performance. Overall, families seeking a traditional high school experience will find the clearest outcome information and strongest reported results at Ferndale High School, while the re-engagement program may be better suited to students needing an alternative path toward completing high school.
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