Ferndale High

Ferndale High is an one-room-style four-year high school in Ferndale, California, part of Ferndale Unified. The school serves 145 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Ferndale High sits 83% smaller than that benchmark.

Ferndale High is one of 2 schools operated by Ferndale Unified, a district that educates 483 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Ferndale High lists that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment; the rest reads as 22% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Native American. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Ferndale High shows 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Ferndale High tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Humboldt County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ferndale High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.0%; this one delivers 39.3%.

Around the school, census data for Humboldt County shows median household income runs about $61,160, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Humboldt County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,319 students), Ferndale High is one campus in the mix.

Ferndale Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ferndale High comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 29.2%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 13%: 166 students in 2018 compared to 145 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 76% to 71%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

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