Pleasant Grove Elementary School

Pleasant Grove Elementary School is one of the reasonably sized K-5 schools in Stockbridge, Georgia, operated by Henry County, with 522 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Henry County runs 53 schools in total, collectively educating 43,012 students. Pleasant Grove Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pleasant Grove Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is Black (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 19% Hispanic, 18% White, 8% multiracial. Compared to Henry County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Pleasant Grove Elementary School has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.5:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 74% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Henry County's rate of about 63%.

With demographic context factored in, Pleasant Grove Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.1%, the actual is 29.4%, a residual of -9.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, Henry County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,146 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Henry County's 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 43,102 students), Pleasant Grove Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Woodland High School, around 1.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pleasant Grove Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 39.7%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Pleasant Grove Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 4% since 2018, when it stood at 541 (now 522). The Black share of enrollment climbed from 47% to 54% over that span.

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