Pleasant Valley School

Pleasant Valley School operates as a sprawling K-5 school in South Windsor, Connecticut, operated by South Windsor School District. Current enrollment sits at 736 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 378 students per school, that is 95% above typical.

South Windsor School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 4,979 students. Pleasant Valley School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pleasant Valley School records that the largest single group is Asian at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 31% White, 9% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 6% Asian, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Asian than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. An estimated 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Capitol Planning Region runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Capitol Planning Region) shows that the typical household earns roughly $93,394 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Capitol Planning Region's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 137,047 students), Pleasant Valley School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Academy of International Studies Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pleasant Valley School has increased 49%, going from 494 students in 2018 to 736 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment grew from 31% to 51% over that span.

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