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.

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