Pembroke Elementary School

Set in Pembroke, Kentucky, Pembroke Elementary School is an average-sized elementary campus, part of Christian County. It instructs 597 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 42% above the state mean of about 421.

Across the 18 schools in Christian County (8,682 students total), Pembroke Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Pembroke Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is White (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 31% Black, 17% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

On the resource side, On paper, Pembroke Elementary School has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Pembroke Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pembroke Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.4%, the actual is 40.7%, a residual of +0.3 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Christian County indicate median household earnings sit near $55,494, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Christian County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,682 students), of which Pembroke Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Cumberland Hall School, roughly 5.7 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Pembroke Elementary School comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.7%.

Pembroke Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 26%: 808 students in 2018 compared to 597 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 50% to 41%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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