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Enrollment
508
Combined
DISTRICT 522 · STATE 673
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COVINGTON COUNTY·NCES 010093000361
Pleasant Home School
12548 Falco Road, Andalusia, AL 36420 · (334) 222-1315 · Covington County
GRADES PK–12COMBINED43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL508 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 84% of Alabama public K-12 schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Alabama public K-12 schools
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
280 students
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 58%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 18 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 34 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 37 | 7% |
| Grade 2 | 37 | 7% |
| Grade 3 | 36 | 7% |
| Grade 4 | 24 | 5% |
| Grade 5 | 28 | 6% |
| Grade 6 | 38 | 7% |
| Grade 7 | 44 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 54 | 11% |
| Grade 9 | 45 | 9% |
| Grade 10 | 44 | 9% |
| Grade 11 | 37 | 7% |
| Grade 12 | 32 | 6% |
This year's kindergarten class (34) is 37% smaller than its 8th grade class (54).
Student demographics
23%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 23% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
62.5%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
32.4%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
Source: ACAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
49.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.9%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Alabama's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Pleasant Home School
Pleasant Home School's state test result (49.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Home School this school | 508 | 55.1% | 49.2% |
| Lamar County HighIntermediate Vernon | 544 | 57.7% | 51.5% |
| Cedar Bluff High School Cedar Bluff | 623 | 56.0% | 46.5% |
| Woodville High School Woodville | 504 | 59.5% | 33.8% |
| Hubbertville School Fayette | 450 | 51.8% | 43.3% |
| Ider School Ider | 586 | 50.7% | 48.5% |
Matched among Alabama K-12 schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Pleasant Home School ranks
Among K-12 schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.2% | #12 of 62 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.4% | #20 of 62 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.5% | #10 of 62 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 508 | #38 of 69 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.5:1 | #38 of 61 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 23.4% | #44 of 61 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.1% | #37 of 65 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.5% | #21 of 37 |
Ranked against other public K-12 schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
508
+48 (+10%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 530
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
was 14.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 508 | 29 | 17.5:1 | 55% (280) |
| 2023-24 | 511 | 32 | 16.0:1 | 61% (312) |
| 2022-23 | 498 | 32 | 15.6:1 | 63% (312) |
| 2020-21 | 460 | 32 | 14.4:1 | 45% (207) |
| 2017-18 | 555 | 34 | 16.3:1 | 46% (258) |
| 2015-16 | 592 | 32 | 18.5:1 | 50% (295) |
| 2010-11 | 569 | 44 | 12.9:1 | 53% (300) |
| 2000-01 | 569 | 33 | 17.2:1 | 36% (205) |
| 1990-91 | 530 | 31 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pleasant Home School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (555 to 508); teachers down 15% (34 to 29).
About Pleasant Home School
Pleasant Home School is a public school serving multiple grade levels run by Covington County in Andalusia, Alabama. It is open to students in pre-K through 12 and enrolls 508 students. By comparison, combined schools in Alabama enroll about 673 students on average.
In Covington County, 8 schools enroll a combined 3,028 students.
White students are 87% of those enrolled at Pleasant Home School. The rest of enrollment is 6% Black and 4% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 23%.
Based on 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, Pleasant Home School has a ratio of 17.5:1. It is about the same as the 17.9:1 average for combined schools in Alabama. Income data for the school show 55% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Covington County average a similar 57%.
On the allk12 Grade, Pleasant Home School lands at A-, ahead of 84% of Alabama public K-12 schools.
Pleasant Home School's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 49.2% is 5.3 points above the 43.9% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In Covington County, home to about 37,628 people, median household income comes to about $52,456, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 17%, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. There are 14 public schools in the county, enrolling about 6,173, Pleasant Home School among them.
Andalusia Elementary School, about 10.9 miles away, is the closest public school. On state test proficiency, Pleasant Home School ranks 5th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
The federal government classifies Pleasant Home School's location as Rural: Remote.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 508, compared with 460 in 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 14.4:1 to 17.5:1.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Covington County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
37,628
Census ACS
Median income
$52,456
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
17%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
14
6,173 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Covington County
- Straughn Elementary SchoolElementary · 569 students
- Red Level SchoolCombined · 535 students
- Straughn High SchoolHigh · 433 students
- WS Harlan Elementary SchoolElementary · 293 students
- Straughn Middle SchoolMiddle · 287 students
- Florala High SchoolHigh · 233 students
Other schools in Andalusia
- Andalusia Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,082 students
- Straughn Elementary SchoolElementary · 569 students
- Andalusia High SchoolHigh · 471 students
- Straughn High SchoolHigh · 433 students
- Straughn Middle SchoolMiddle · 287 students
- Andalusia Junior HighMiddle · 270 students
Nearby schools
- Andalusia Elementary School10.9 mi · 1,082
- Andalusia Junior High13.7 mi · 270
- Andalusia High School13.7 mi · 471
- LAUREL HILL SCHOOL16.4 mi · 432
- Red Level School16.9 mi · 535
- WS Harlan Elementary School18.1 mi · 293
Frequently asked questions
About Pleasant Home SchoolHow large is Pleasant Home School?
Pleasant Home School enrolls approximately 508 students in grades PK-12.
Is Pleasant Home School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Pleasant Home School is a combined-grade school covering grades PK-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Pleasant Home School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Pleasant Home School is approximately 17.5:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Pleasant Home School?
At Pleasant Home School, the student body is approximately 87% White, 4% Hispanic, 6% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Pleasant Home School?
Pleasant Home School is overseen by Covington County in Covington County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.