Pleasant Lea Elementary School

Size

Of the 18 elementary schools in Lee's Summit R-VII School District, Pleasant Lea Elementary School is the 13th largest, with 2% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.6 miles away and have a median of 427 students, so Pleasant Lea Elementary School is close to their typical size.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 3 with 66 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 52, against an average of 58 per grade. This year grade 5 has 19% more students than kindergarten (62 against 52). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 62.1% of enrollment, about the same share as across Lee's Summit R-VII (64.2%). Two or more races students are next, at 14.7%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

38.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 24.4% across Lee's Summit R-VII and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 16.5% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Pleasant Lea Elementary School has 26.94 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.8 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 346 students would have about 28.1 teachers, so Pleasant Lea Elementary School has 1.2 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri elementary schools (12.3).

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, small, which means it is in an urbanized area of fewer than 100,000 people, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Westview Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in the same district. There are 16 elementary schools within 5 miles and 51 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.