The Ferndale Area School District is a diminutive, suburban, public

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. It serves the boroughs of Brownstown, Dale, Ferndale, and Lorain as well as Middle Taylor Township - none of which border on each other. The district encompasses just . According to 2000 federal census data, it served a resident population of 5,759. By 2010, the district's population had declined to 5,100 people. The educational attainment levels for the Ferndale Area School District population (25 years old and over) were 90.3% high school graduates and 14.2% college graduates. The district is one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania. According to the

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, 61.5% of the district's pupils lived at 185% or below the Federal Poverty level as shown by their eligibility for the federal free or reduced price school meal programs in 2012. In 2009, Ferndale Area School District residents’

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was $18,430, while the

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was $35,743. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. In Cambria County, the median household income was $39,574. By 2013, the median household income in the United States rose to $52,100. Ferndale Area School District operates two schools: Ferndale Area Elementary School and Ferndale Area Junior Senior High School. High school students may choose to attend

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for training in the construction and mechanical trades. The Appalachia

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IU8 provides the district with a wide variety of services like specialized education for disabled students and hearing; driver education training; speech and visual disability services and professional development for staff and faculty.

Extracurriculars

The Ferndale Area School District offers a variety of clubs, activities, and a sports program.

Sports

;Junior High School Sports Programs: ;Boys: *Baseball *Basketball *Golf ;Girls: *Basketball *Softball *Volleyball According to PIAA directory July 2014 ;Boys varsity *

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

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Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

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Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

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Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

- Class AA ;Girls varsity: *

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Softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

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Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

- Class A

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External links

Ferndale Area School District

Penna. Inter-Scholastic Assn.
School districts in Cambria County, Pennsylvania