Pemberton Elementary

Pemberton Elementary is an elementary campus of average-sized scale in Salisbury, Maryland, one of the schools within Wicomico County Public Schools, hosting 506 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Wicomico County Public Schools runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 15,582 students. Pemberton Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Pemberton Elementary shows that the largest single group is Black, at 57% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 25% White, 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 27% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.5:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 66% of students at Pemberton Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pemberton Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.4%, the actual is 34.0%, a residual of -1.4 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Wicomico County put the typical household earns roughly $76,210 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Pemberton Elementary is one of 25 public schools in Wicomico County (combined enrollment of about 15,582 students).

Pinehurst Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pemberton Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pemberton Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 33.8%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Pemberton Elementary's enrollment has fell 10% since 2018, when it stood at 563 (now 506). Class-load math has fell: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

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