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Enrollment
435
Elementary
DISTRICT 531 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALATINE CCSD 15·NCES 173042003153
Pleasant Hill Elementary School
434 W Illinois Ave, Palatine, IL 60067 · (847) 963-5900 · Cook County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL435 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
6%
28 students
DISTRICT 31% · STATE 56%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 16 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 51 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 30% smaller than its 5th grade class (73).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 69% · 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
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
64.7%
IL avg 51.0% . +14.4pp since 2023
Math
70.7%
IL avg 37.9% . +10.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.7% | 70.7% |
| 2023-24 | 50.3% | 60.0% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. 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
67.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.8%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% typical for Illinois 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 Illinois'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 Hill Elementary School
Pleasant Hill Elementary School's state test result (67.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Hill Elementary School this school | 435 | 6.4% | 67.3% |
| Patterson Elementary School Naperville | 453 | 6.2% | 74.1% |
| Spring Brook Elementary School Naperville | 569 | 6.0% | 76.1% |
| Benjamin Elementary School Bloomington | 607 | 11.0% | 58.4% |
| V Blanche Graham Elementary Naperville | 325 | 7.1% | 77.8% |
| Decatur Classical Elementary School Chicago | 341 | 12.0% | 95.3% |
Matched among Illinois elementary 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 Hill Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.3% | #169 of 1,925 | #61 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.7% | #210 of 2,077 ▼ 55 | #78 of 829 ▼ 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.7% | #513 of 2,077 ▼ 33 | #176 of 829 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 435 | #814 of 2,419 | #366 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.5:1 | #1,638 of 2,035 | #690 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.4% | #563 of 2,042 | #213 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 6.4% | #2,115 of 2,132 | #799 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.4% | #172 of 1,461 | #107 of 661 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
435
-190 (-30%) vs 2020
-16% since 1990-91, when it was 518
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 | 435 | 28.1 | 15.5:1 | 6% (28) |
| 2023-24 | 543 | 29 | 18.7:1 | 10% (55) |
| 2022-23 | 583 | 30.4 | 19.2:1 | 8% (48) |
| 2020-21 | 625 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 625 | 30.8 | 20.3:1 | 6% (38) |
| 2015-16 | 593 | 29 | 20.4:1 | 6% (34) |
| 2010-11 | 610 | 26 | 23.5:1 | 5% (33) |
| 2000-01 | 607 | 30 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 518 | 27 | 19.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pleasant Hill Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 30% (625 to 435); teachers down 9% (30.8 to 28.1).
About Pleasant Hill Elementary School
Pleasant Hill Elementary School is a public elementary school in Palatine, Illinois. The school's enrollment of 435 students covers kindergarten through 5.
Palatine CCSD 15 counts 20 schools and 11,715 students, including Pleasant Hill Elementary School.
White students make up a majority at Pleasant Hill Elementary School, at 54%. The remaining shares are 32% Asian, 7% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Cook County's population at about 44%. Pleasant Hill Elementary School's diversity index is 60%, against a US figure of 70%.
Dividing enrollment by its 28.1 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 15.5:1. That is 1.6 students per teacher above the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Pleasant Hill Elementary School reports 6% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The rate at public schools in Cook County averages 66%, higher than here.
The model predicts 67.8% for a school in Illinois with Pleasant Hill Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Pleasant Hill Elementary School posts 67.3%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Cook County show that the median household income is $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Pleasant Hill Elementary School is one of 1,406 public schools in the county.
Wm Fremd High School is the public school closest to Pleasant Hill Elementary School, about 0.6 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Pleasant Hill Elementary School ranks 2nd of 8 on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Pleasant Hill Elementary School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is down 30% from 2020-21, when Pleasant Hill Elementary School had 625 students, to 2024-25, when it had 435.
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Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Palatine CCSD 15
- Plum Grove Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,128 students
- Winston Campus Middle SchoolMiddle · 847 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 772 students
- Virginia Lake Elementary SchoolElementary · 717 students
- Walter R Sundling Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
- Frank C Whiteley Elementary SchoolElementary · 663 students
Other schools in Palatine
- Wm Fremd High SchoolHigh · 2,689 students
- Palatine High SchoolHigh · 2,535 students
- Winston Campus Middle SchoolMiddle · 847 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 772 students
- Virginia Lake Elementary SchoolElementary · 717 students
- Walter R Sundling Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
Other Pleasant Hill Elementary schools
14 other US public schools in 11 states are named Pleasant Hill Elementary. Pleasant Hill Elementary School is the 8th largest of the 15.
- Pleasant Hill Elementary SchoolWinfield, IL · 583 students
- Pleasant Hill Elementary SchoolPleasant Hill, IL · 254 students
- Pleasant Hill Elementary SchoolPeoria, IL · 164 students
- Pleasant Hill Elementary SchoolOlive Branch, MS · 1,079 students
- Pleasant Hill ElementaryLexington, SC · 846 students
Nearby schools
- Wm Fremd High School0.6 mi · 2,689
- Hunting Ridge Elementary School0.8 mi · 639
- Stuart R Paddock School0.8 mi · 348
- Plum Grove Middle School1.0 mi · 1,128
- Gray M Sanborn Elementary School1.4 mi · 661
- Marion Jordan Elementary School1.4 mi · 503
Frequently asked questions
About Pleasant Hill Elementary SchoolHow large is Pleasant Hill Elementary School?
Pleasant Hill Elementary School enrolls approximately 435 students in grades KG-05.
Is Pleasant Hill Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Pleasant Hill Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Pleasant Hill Elementary School have?
Pleasant Hill Elementary School employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.5:1.
How diverse is Pleasant Hill Elementary School?
Pleasant Hill Elementary School reports a student body of 54% White, 7% Hispanic, 1% Black, 32% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Pleasant Hill Elementary School?
Pleasant Hill Elementary School is overseen by Palatine CCSD 15 in Cook County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.