Pike Elementary School

Pike Elementary School is one of the one-room-style primary schools in Cambridge, Ohio, overseen by East Muskingum Local, with 116 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 2. Enrollment runs roughly 71% leaner than the state mean of about 404.

East Muskingum Local comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,151 students; Pike Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Pike Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%). Other groups include 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Guernsey County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Guernsey County's rate of about 69%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Guernsey County shows the typical household earns roughly $58,478 per year, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Guernsey County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,717 students), of which Pike Elementary School is one.

Cambridge City Preschool is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 6 years. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at Pike Elementary School has held roughly steady, going from 117 students in 2018 to 116 in 2024. The White share of enrollment rose from 91% to 97% over that span.

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