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Public school / High

Ferndale High School

Ferndale, Michigan

NCES ID
261428005072
District
Ferndale Public Schools
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Ferndale High School is a public high school in Ferndale, Michigan, run by Ferndale Public Schools. It enrols 712 students — the 18620th largest of 3,559 public schools in Michigan.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

712students

18620th nationally, tied with 71

Teachers

41.0FTE

23419th nationally, tied with 1,277

Students per teacher

17.4students

66993rd nationally, tied with 557

Free or reduced-price lunch

57.6%percent

42877th nationally, tied with 108

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Ferndale Public Schools

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Ferndale High School712 students
  2. 2Ferndale Middle School540 students
  3. 3Ferndale Upper Elementary Campus536 students
  4. 4Ferndale Lower Elementary Campus476 students
  5. 5University High School476 students
  6. 6Tri County Educational Center346 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Michigan median across 3,559 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+84.9%
  • Teachers+86.4%
  • Students per teacher+2.4%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−2.9%
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Where this sits

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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.