# Central Elementary

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530285000458`
- **School name**: Central Elementary
- **Location**: Ferndale, WA 98248
- **Address**: 5610 Second Avenue
- **District**: Ferndale School District (LEAID `5302850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 48.84530, -122.59170
- **Phone**: (360)383-9600

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 315
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 18
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 65.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Foundational
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 3
  - proficiency_math_decile: 6
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 4.5
  - growth_ela_decile: 4
  - growth_math_decile: 6
  - other_academic_combined_decile: 5
  - el_progress_decile: 5
  - regularattendance_decile: 3
  - sqss_combined_decile: 3
  - _2025_score: 4.7
  - overall: Foundational

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (WA WSIF)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 33.9% (96 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 21.9%
- **Black/African American**: 4.9%
- **Asian**: 1.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 63.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 7.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 66.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.9% — 28 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,875
- **Federal share**: $1,337
- **State + local share**: $18,538
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 325
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,537,972
- **Federal share**: 14.2%
- **State share**: 63.5%
- **Local share**: 22.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,680,309

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $76,048
- **Poverty rate**: 9.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 26.3%
- **Unemployment**: 6.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,567
- **Foreign-born residents**: 8.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.3 miles (OESER CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 7
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.41 miles (LITTLE SQUALICUM)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: FERNDALE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.65172 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Vista Middle School** — 1.1 mi away, 31.81% (this school: 33.92%)
- **Cascadia Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 32.85% (this school: 33.92%)
- **Meridian Special Programs** — 4.6 mi away, 9.38% (this school: 33.92%)
- **Meridian High School** — 4.6 mi away, 29.32% (this school: 33.92%)
- **Alderwood Elementary School** — 5.5 mi away, 30.95% (this school: 33.92%)

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