# Ferris High School

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/ferris-high-school-spokane/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/ferris-high-school-spokane

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530825001385`
- **School name**: Ferris High School
- **Location**: Spokane, WA 99223
- **Address**: 3020 E 37Th Ave
- **District**: Spokane School District (LEAID `5308250`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 47.61970, -117.36530
- **Phone**: (509)354-6000
- **Wikidata QID**: Q14713714 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_E._Ferris_High_School
- **Founded**: 1963

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,644
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 89
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 44.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Foundational
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 7
  - proficiency_math_decile: 5
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 6
  - grad_combined_decile: 9
  - el_progress_decile: 5
  - regularattendance_decile: 2
  - ninthgradeontrack_decile: 7
  - dualcredit_decile: 6
  - sqss_combined_decile: 5
  - _2025_score: 7.3
  - overall: Foundational

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

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 9

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.5% (190 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 10.4%
- **Black/African American**: 3.3%
- **Asian**: 3.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 71.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.8%
- **Two or more races**: 10.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 47.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.4% — 204 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 77 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 57 students
- **Autism**: 28 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 15 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 13 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 10 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,528
- **Federal share**: $1,611
- **State + local share**: $15,917
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,633
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,647,346
- **Federal share**: 17.5%
- **State share**: 60.3%
- **Local share**: 22.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,665,642

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $64,274
- **Poverty rate**: 5.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 48.3%
- **Unemployment**: 7.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,382
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.8 miles (GENERAL ELECTRIC CO SPOKANE APPARATUS SERVICE SHOP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 22
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.58 miles (1905 EAST PACIFIC AVENUE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SPOKANE CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.89555 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Chase Middle School** — 1.2 mi away, 11.38% (this school: 11.52%)
- **Moran Prairie Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 9% (this school: 11.52%)
- **Sacajawea Middle School** — 1.9 mi away, 8.28% (this school: 11.52%)
- **Wilson Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 10.31% (this school: 11.52%)
- **Seth Woodard Elementary** — 4.5 mi away, 10.68% (this school: 11.52%)

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