About Us
Ferndale High School serves students in grades 9-12, with an approximate enrollment of 1,350 students. Ferndale High has a rich tradition of excellence in all areas — academic, music, career and technical education, athletics, special programs, and community service.
Something that we take seriously at Ferndale High School is PRIDE. You’ll see that PRIDE is everywhere on campus, and at our many school events whether held on or off campus. You will see “Eagle Pride, City Wide” signs all over our community. We want to make sure that PRIDE is more than just a word and something that become actionable and held up as our standard. So, this year our students and staff took PRIDE to a different level. As we rolled out our positive behavior interventions our school staff selected the word “Pride” as our focal point for teaching and recognizing positive behaviors. Our students, all 1300+, were tasked with selecting five words that could be embedded into making our word actionable.
Our students came up with:
* PERSEVERANCE *
* RESPECT *
* INTEGRITY *
* DEDICATION *
* EXCELLENCE *
It is with these five chosen words that we create a belief and a commitment to cultivate a climate for learning, growing, and developing our individual skillsets on a daily basis. As we roll out PRIDE we will look deeper into each word and teach how each of our five chosen words can move us forward towards our school goals and individual goal. It’s good to be a Golden Eagle but it’s great to be a Golden Eagle with PRIDE!
Something that we take seriously at Ferndale High School is Pride. You’ll see that Pride is everywhere on campus, and at our many school events whether held on or off campus. You will see “Eagle Pride, City Wide” signs all over our community. We want to make sure that Pride is more than just a word and something that become actionable and held up as our standard. So, this year our students and staff took Pride to a different level. As we rolled out our positive behavior interventions our school staff selected the word “Pride” as our focal point for teaching and recognizing positive behaviors. Our students, all 1300+, were tasked with selecting five words that could be embedded into making our word actionable.
FHS is located in the northwest corner of Washington State, only 15 miles south of the Canadian border. Our high school is the largest in the county at over 1,350 students. We have a wonderfully diverse population fed by new immigrants from all over Asia and Europe, long time area residents, migrant families, and the culturally rich Lummi Nation. Ferndale is growing rapidly with over 11,000 residents, as is most of Whatcom County (over 175,000 residents).