Pleasant Valley Elementary

Pleasant Valley Elementary is one of the mid-tier elementary schools in Novato, California, operated by Novato Unified, with 464 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Novato Unified comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 7,199 students; Pleasant Valley Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Pleasant Valley Elementary records that 62% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 23% Hispanic, 13% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 20% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Marin County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Pleasant Valley Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.3%; this one delivers 64.3%.

In the surrounding community, Marin County reports that median household earnings sit near $149,091, 61% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Marin County's 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,867 students), Pleasant Valley Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: San Marin High, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pleasant Valley Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 54.1%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pleasant Valley Elementary has showed little movement, going from 463 students in 2018 to 464 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 72% to 62% across the same window.

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