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Ferndale Virtual Academy

Ferndale · WA · Ferndale School District · Public · K-12 combined

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📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • ✅ Gifted & talented program
  • 🔢 1 calculus classes · 5 physics
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 25% of US high schools

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Ferndale Virtual Academy compares for families

What families should know about Ferndale Virtual Academy.

  • LocallyWA sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Ferndale High School, Providence Christian School Nw, Ferndale Re-Engagement and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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🎓 Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Limited — narrow advanced curriculum

Bottom 25% of US high schools

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Advanced math classes
1
1 calculus · 0 advanced
Lab science classes
5
5 physics · 0 chemistry
Other rigor signals
✅ Gifted/talented program

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).

SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21
SAT/ACT test-takers
0
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
0.0
takers per 100 students in grades 9-12

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.

📊 State assessment · WA Smarter Balanced · grade 10

SBAC grade 10 — met or exceeded standard

School year 2024-25. Levels 3 + 4 combined ("at or above grade level"). Cells suppressed by the state when sample is small.

English Language Arts
18.5%
3.7% exceeded · 5 students tested

Source: WA state DOE Smarter Balanced results. Levels 1–2 = below standard, 3 = met, 4 = exceeded. Headline = level 3 + level 4 combined.

🏛️ Federal Title I context

Title I Schoolwide eligible

≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program

60.4%
FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).
0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of +18.7%/year, projecting from 2024's 154 students:

2025
183
2027
258
2029
363

An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.

Nearby high schools — the local competition

The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
Ferndale High School
Ferndale
Public 0.0 1,325 +2.2%
Providence Christian School Nw
Ferndale
Private 0.6 75
Ferndale Re-Engagement
FERNDALE
Public 0.7 33
Meridian High School
BELLINGHAM
Public 4.6 534 +7.4%
Intergenerational High School
Bellingham
Public · charter 6.5 107
Meridian Impact Re-Engagement
Bellingham
Public 7.0 21
Blaine Re-Engagement
Bellingham
Public 7.0 14
Lynden Academy
Lynden
Public 8.3 121 -11.7%

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