# Ferndale Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ferndale-elementary-ferndale/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ferndale-elementary-ferndale

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060003701550`
- **School name**: Ferndale Elementary
- **Location**: Ferndale, CA 95536
- **Address**: 164 Shaw Ave.
- **District**: Ferndale Unified (LEAID `0600037`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.57764, -124.26759
- **Phone**: (707)786-5300

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 338
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 45.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Green
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Green
  - ela: Yellow
  - chronic_absent: Orange

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 48.8% proficient — 217 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 11.7% (42 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 26.0% (78 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 7.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 22.1%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 67.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 45.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.5% — 54 students
- **English Learners**: 8.3% — 29 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 16 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,891
- **Federal share**: $1,123
- **State + local share**: $9,768
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 349
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,991,597
- **Federal share**: 12.5%
- **State share**: 56.5%
- **Local share**: 31.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,006,303

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $67,500
- **Poverty rate**: 14.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 23.4%
- **Unemployment**: 8.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,274
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 47.7 miles (COPPER BLUFF MINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.97 miles (APN 201 254 016)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: RIVERSIDE CSD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2019-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.53802 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 14.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Ferndale High** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 11.7%)
- **Fortuna Union High** — 6.1 mi away, 1.49% (this school: 11.7%)
- **Redwood Preparatory Charter** — 6.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 11.7%)
- **Toddy Thomas Middle** — 6.9 mi away, 7.4% (this school: 11.7%)
- **Academy of the Redwoods** — 9.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 11.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Ferndale High** — 0.6 mi away, 61.55% (this school: 50.4%)
- **Redwood Preparatory Charter** — 6.7 mi away, 60.7% (this school: 50.4%)
- **Academy of the Redwoods** — 9.3 mi away, 74.6% (this school: 50.4%)
- **Hydesville Elementary** — 9.4 mi away, 59.2% (this school: 50.4%)
- **Eagle Prairie Elementary** — 10.1 mi away, 52.3% (this school: 50.4%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ferndale-elementary-ferndale
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ferndale-elementary-ferndale/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ferndale-elementary-ferndale/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ferndale-elementary-ferndale/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ferndale-elementary-ferndale/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ferndale-elementary-ferndale/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ferndale-elementary-ferndale/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ferndale-elementary-ferndale/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ferndale-elementary-ferndale/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ferndale-elementary-ferndale/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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