Pleasant Valley Elementary School

Size

Of the 6 elementary schools in Carthage R-IX School District, Pleasant Valley Elementary School is the smallest, with 3.2% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 3.7 miles away and have a median of 317 students, so Pleasant Valley Elementary School is smaller than most of them.

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 pre-K with 83 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 16, against an average of 32 per grade. This year grade 3 has 25% more students than kindergarten (20 against 16). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 83 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 59.3% of enrollment, a higher share than across Carthage R-IX (48.3%). Hispanic students are next, at 33.3%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

66% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 64.1% across Carthage R-IX and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 24.1% 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 Valley Elementary School has 9.11 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.8 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 162 students would have about 13.2 teachers, so Pleasant Valley Elementary School has 4.1 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 rural, fringe, which means it is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town. The nearest other elementary school is Columbian Elementary School, 3.2 miles away in the same district. There are 10 elementary schools within 5 miles and 17 within 10 miles.

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