Eastern Elementary School

Located at 6928 Bethlehem Rd, in Pleasureville, Kentucky, Eastern Elementary School is a tight-knit elementary school that educates 189 students (grades K through 5), operated by Henry County. That puts it 55% below the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 421 students.

Within Henry County, which oversees 6 schools and 1,984 students, Eastern Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Eastern Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%); the rest comes out to 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 57% of students at Eastern Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Eastern Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.6%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Henry County indicate the typical household earns roughly $63,347 per year, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Henry County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,990 students), Eastern Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is New Castle Elementary School, roughly 6.9 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Eastern Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 34.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Eastern Elementary School has edged down 8%, going from 205 students in 2018 to 189 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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