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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Vista Middle School, Ferndale, WA

CEP schoolVista Middle School is a public middle school in Ferndale, part of Ferndale School District. It enrolled 550 students in 2024-25, with 17.2 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
550
Teachers (FTE)
32.0
Students per teacher
17.2
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 17.9. The Washington average across schools is 18.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school17.2
District17.9
Washington18.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
6051 Vista Drive, Ferndale, WA 98248
Phone
(360)383-9370
District
Ferndale School District
County
Whatcom County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Midsize
NCES school ID
530285000463
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
246
Reduced-price lunch
60
Free or reduced-price lunch
30655.6% of enrollment.
Direct certification
235Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other middle schools in Ferndale School District

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.