Ferndale Lower Elementary Campus

Ferndale Lower Elementary Campus operates as a mid-sized elementary school in OAK PARK, Michigan. It enrolls 517 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are kindergarten through 3. That puts enrollment 40% bigger than the 369-student average for elementary schools in Michigan.

Ferndale Lower Elementary Campus falls under Ferndale Public Schools, which has 6 schools enrolling 3,102 students.

The largest group at Ferndale Lower Elementary Campus is White students, at 50%. Enrollment also includes 35% Black, 7% multiracial, and 7% Hispanic. Among people living in Oakland County, the White share is about 69%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Ferndale Lower Elementary Campus scores 61%.

The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.6:1. The school has 31.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 16.6:1 compares with an average of 15.8:1 for elementary schools in Michigan. Federal data show 48% of students (249) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 32% average for public schools in Oakland County.

Census data for Oakland County show the median household earns about $97,760 a year, roughly 51% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Ferndale Lower Elementary Campus, Oakland County has 345 public schools.

Ferndale Upper Elementary Campus is about 0.4 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of Ferndale Lower Elementary Campus, there are at least 8 other public schools.

Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 517, compared with 456 in 2020-21.

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