Cascadia Elementary

Cascadia Elementary is an elementary-level community of medium-sized scale in Ferndale, Washington, run under Ferndale School District, works with 440 students in grades K through 5.

Cascadia Elementary is one of 13 schools operated by Ferndale School District, a district that hosts 4,746 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Cascadia Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 35% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 7% multiracial, 2% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 78%.

On the resource side, Cascadia Elementary records 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Whatcom County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Cascadia Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.4%, the actual is 37.9%, a residual of -2.5 points.

In the area at large, census data for Whatcom County shows the typical household earns roughly $81,784 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Whatcom County's 78 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,779 students), Cascadia Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Eagleridge Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Cascadia Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.2%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 448 students in 2018 compared to 440 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 61% to 45% across the same window.

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