Pleasant Grove Elementary School

Pleasant Grove Elementary School is an average-sized elementary school in Pleasant Grove, Alabama, part of Jefferson County. The school educates 524 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Jefferson County comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 35,444 students; Pleasant Grove Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Pleasant Grove Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (91%); the rest looks like 4% White, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 42% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Pleasant Grove Elementary School has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.6:1. The state averages about 17.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Jefferson County (around 52%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pleasant Grove Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.4%, the actual is 26.9%, a residual of -10.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate median household income runs about $66,388, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Jefferson County runs 181 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students), of which Pleasant Grove Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Jefferson County International Baccalaureate School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pleasant Grove Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Pleasant Grove Elementary School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 39.6%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pleasant Grove Elementary School has fell 30%, going from 747 students in 2018 to 524 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 15% to 4% over that span.

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