Pembroke Elementary School

Pembroke Elementary School, an one-room-style elementary campus in Pembroke, Maine, one of the schools within Pembroke Public Schools, enrolls 83 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 229 students per school, that is 64% leaner than typical.

Pembroke Public Schools is the operating authority for Pembroke Elementary School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On the student-mix side, Pembroke Elementary School logs that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 11% Native American, 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 10.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 71% of students at Pembroke Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Washington County's rate of about 62%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Washington County) logs that median household income runs about $56,024, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Washington County runs 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,703 students), of which Pembroke Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Edmunds Consolidated School, around 3.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Pembroke Elementary School.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 4%: 80 students in 2018 compared to 83 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 89% to 83% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 8.3:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

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