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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school

Ferndale Special Services

Ferndale, Washington

NCES ID
530285003199
School type
Special education
Title I
Not designated

Ferndale Special Services is a public school in Ferndale, Washington, run by Ferndale School District. It enrols 22 students — the 94165th largest of 2,574 public schools in Washington.

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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

22students

94165th nationally, tied with 100

Free or reduced-price lunch

63.6%percent

37090th nationally, tied with 106

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.

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 School District

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 School1,323 students
  2. 2Vista Middle School572 students
  3. 3Skyline Elementary School454 students
  4. 4Eagleridge Elementary452 students
  5. 5Horizon Middle School449 students
  6. 6Cascadia Elementary429 students
  7. 7Custer Elem329 students
  8. 8Central Elementary311 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Washington median across 2,574 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−94.5%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+18.9%
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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.