Pembroke Meadows Elementary

Pembroke Meadows Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school in Virginia Beach, Virginia, one of the schools within Virginia Beach City Public Schools, enrolls 485 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Within Virginia Beach City Public Schools, which oversees 82 schools and 64,731 students, Pembroke Meadows Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Pembroke Meadows Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder consists of 23% Black, 15% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Virginia Beach city as a whole is about 61% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Pembroke Meadows Elementary has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 69% of students at Pembroke Meadows Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Virginia Beach city runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pembroke Meadows Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 69.4%; this one delivers 78.9%.

Across the wider county, Virginia Beach city reports that median household earnings sit near $92,968, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Pembroke Meadows Elementary is one of 89 public schools in Virginia Beach city (combined enrollment of about 64,731 students).

Old Donation School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pembroke Meadows Elementary. On composite proficiency, Pembroke Meadows Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 77.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Pembroke Meadows Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 3% since 2018, when it stood at 502 (now 485). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 51% to 46% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.