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If you had an hour of school board time for Pendleton County High School, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
667
High
DISTRICT 533 · STATE 558
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PENDLETON COUNTY·NCES 210474001161
Pendleton County High School
2359 Hwy 27 N, Falmouth, KY 41040 · (859) 654-3355 · Pendleton County
GRADES 09–12HIGH42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL667 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
19.1:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.5:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
382 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 63%
Community
3
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Pendleton County. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
KSA (K-PREP) 2024-25 . % Proficient/DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
44.0%
KY avg 47.9%
Math
30.0%
KY avg 42.8%
What this means: On the KSA (K-PREP), Kentucky's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kentucky schools, those numbers are about 48 and 43.
Source: KSA (K-PREP). All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of KY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
27.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.8%
based on KY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 44% typical for Kentucky schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
667
-101 (-13%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
19.1:1
was 20.2:1
% White
96%
was 95%
% Hispanic
1%
was 1%
% Black
1%
was 2%
% Asian
0%
was 0%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About Pendleton County High School
Located at 2359 Hwy 27 N, in Falmouth, Kentucky, Pendleton County High School is a moderately sized secondary school that serves 667 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Pendleton County.
Across the 4 schools in Pendleton County (2,130 students total), Pendleton County High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, Pendleton County High School logs that nearly all students (96%) are White; the rest breaks down as 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Pendleton County High School has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.1:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pendleton County High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 43.8%; this one comes in at 27.0%, -16.8 points off the demographic line.
In the area at large, census data for Pendleton County shows median household earnings sit near $64,669, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Pendleton County's 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,130 students), Pendleton County High School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Southern Elementary School, roughly 1.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Pendleton County High School. On composite proficiency, Pendleton County High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pendleton County High School has ticked down 13%, going from 768 students in 2018 to 667 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 in 2025.
Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Pendleton County High School typically covers enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
Pendleton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
14,723
Census ACS
Median income
$64,669
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
15%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
4
2,130 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pendleton County
- Southern Elementary SchoolElementary · 542 students
- Northern Elementary SchoolElementary · 501 students
- Phillip Sharp Middle SchoolMiddle · 420 students
Nearby schools
- Southern Elementary School1.6 mi · 542
- Phillip Sharp Middle School3.8 mi · 420
- Northern Elementary School7.3 mi · 501
- Williamstown Elementary11.5 mi · 397
- Williamstown Head Start Preschool11.5 mi · 90
- Williamstown Jr. High11.5 mi · 172
Frequently asked questions
About Pendleton County High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Pendleton County High School?
Pendleton County High School enrolls approximately 667 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Pendleton County High School serve?
Pendleton County High School serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at Pendleton County High School?
Approximately 19.1:1 students per teacher at Pendleton County High School.
How diverse is Pendleton County High School?
Pendleton County High School reports a student body of 96% White, 1% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Pendleton County High School?
Pendleton County High School is overseen by Pendleton County in Pendleton County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.