Eastern Elementary/Middle

Eastern Elementary/Middle is an elementary school of average-sized scale in Pembroke, Virginia, part of Giles County Public Schools, serveing 433 students in grades pre-K through 7.

Giles County Public Schools comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,575 students; Eastern Elementary/Middle is among them.

In terms of who attends, Eastern Elementary/Middle logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Other groups include 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 67% of students at Eastern Elementary/Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Eastern Elementary/Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.8%, the actual is 72.9%, a residual of +3.1 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Giles County) shows that median household income runs about $65,691, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Giles County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,575 students), of which Eastern Elementary/Middle is one.

Giles High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.9 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 7 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Eastern Elementary/Middle comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 78.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Eastern Elementary/Middle has fell 3%, going from 446 students in 2018 to 433 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.