Pembroke Hill School

Pembroke Hill School is an independent day school in Kansas City, Missouri, serving more than 1,000 students from preschool through grade 12. The school operates across two campuses in the city and is non-sectarian. Its stated mission is simple: cultivate the best in each, for the benefit of all.

Scale shapes the teaching experience here. With a thousand-plus students under one academic program, departments are large enough for real specialization. A high school physics teacher can teach physics. A third-grade reading specialist can focus on early literacy. The language program is broad for the region, with Mandarin, French, Latin, and Spanish offered across divisions, so faculty jobs in world languages open up regularly.

The school's finances are sturdy. Pembroke Hill reported about $39 million in revenue and $162 million in net assets in 2023, placing it among the better-resourced day schools in the Midwest. For candidates, that usually means steady salaries, reliable health and retirement benefits, funded professional development, and classroom budgets that hold up in slower years.

Hiring runs across four divisions: early childhood, lower school, middle school, and upper school. Teaching jobs rotate through humanities, STEM, world languages, and the arts. Staff openings include coaching, learning support, admissions, advancement, and operations. Most faculty searches begin in late winter and close by spring.

Kansas City is also more affordable than the coastal independent school markets, so a Pembroke Hill School salary tends to go further in day-to-day life.