Enrollment
254
Elementary
DISTRICT 177 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PLEASANT HILL CUSD 3·NCES 173189003345
Pleasant Hill Elementary School
501 E Quincy St, Pleasant Hill, IL 62366 · (217) 734-2311 · Pike County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL254 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 17% of Illinois public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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 Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.0:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
173 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 56%
Community
0
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 | 32 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 22 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 35 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 25 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 28 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 21 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 26 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 19 | 7% |
| Grade 7 | 28 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 18 | 7% |
This year's kindergarten class (22) is 22% larger than its 8th grade class (18).
Student demographics
11%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 10% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Pleasant Hill Elementary School→Pleasant Hill High School
Based on grade levels within Pleasant Hill CUSD 3. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
24.4%
IL avg 51.0% . +12.7pp since 2023
Math
26.0%
IL avg 37.9% . +23.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 24 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.4% | 26.0% |
| 2023-24 | 11.7% | 2.3% |
% 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
25.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.2%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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 (25.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Hill Elementary School this school | 254 | 68.1% | 25.7% |
| Carolyn Wenz Elementary School Paris | 258 | 69.0% | 42.7% |
| Prophetstown Elementary School Prophetstown | 229 | 65.1% | 39.2% |
| Hardin County Elementary School Elizabethtown | 216 | 66.7% | 42.8% |
| Zeigler-Royalton Elementary School Mulkeytown | 258 | 72.5% | 27.3% |
| Ramsey Elementary School Ramsey | 212 | 67.5% | 55.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.7% | #1,426 of 1,925 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.0% | #1,420 of 2,077 ▲ 590 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.4% | #1,826 of 2,077 ▲ 52 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 254 | #1,804 of 2,419 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #357 of 2,035 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 11.3% | #1,863 of 2,042 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.1% | #778 of 2,132 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.1% | #334 of 615 |
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
254
+31 (+14%) vs 2020
-6% since 1990-91, when it was 269
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 | 254 | 22.4 | 11.3:1 | 68% (173) |
| 2023-24 | 264 | 19.6 | 13.5:1 | 65% (172) |
| 2022-23 | 278 | 20.7 | 13.4:1 | 70% (194) |
| 2020-21 | 223 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 235 | 16.9 | 13.9:1 | 54% (126) |
| 2015-16 | 230 | 15 | 15.3:1 | 45% (103) |
| 2010-11 | 223 | 19 | 11.7:1 | 41% (91) |
| 2000-01 | 277 | 20 | 13.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 269 | 21 | 12.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pleasant Hill Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 8% (235 to 254); teachers up 33% (16.9 to 22.4).
About Pleasant Hill Elementary School
Pleasant Hill Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school located in Pleasant Hill, Illinois. It reported 254 students in pre-K through 8 in 2024-25. By comparison, elementary schools in Illinois enroll about 381 students on average.
Pleasant Hill Elementary School is run by Pleasant Hill CUSD 3, whose 2 schools enroll 353 students.
Pleasant Hill Elementary School is 94% White by enrollment. Next come 2% Hispanic and 2% Black. That is in line with Pike County, where about 95% of residents are White. The diversity index for Pleasant Hill Elementary School is 11%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Based on 22.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, Pleasant Hill Elementary School has a ratio of 11.3:1. The average for elementary schools in Illinois, 13.9:1, is higher. Income data for the school show 68% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 55% average for public schools in Pike County, the school's rate is higher.
On the allk12 Grade, Pleasant Hill Elementary School lands at C-, ahead of 17% of Illinois public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Pleasant Hill Elementary School is 6.5 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 25.7% actual, 32.2% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Illinois.
The school's county is Pike County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $59,777 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 19% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Pleasant Hill Elementary School shares Pike County with 11 other public schools.
Measured in a straight line, Pleasant Hill High School is about 0.1 miles from Pleasant Hill Elementary School. Other public schools within ten miles: 2. Nearby schools with test data average 41.5% proficiency; Pleasant Hill Elementary School posts 25.7%.
The school's federal locale classification is Rural: Remote.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose from 223 to 254, a 14% gain.
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Pike County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
14,469
Census ACS
Median income
$59,777
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
12
2,394 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other Pleasant Hill Elementary schools
14 other US public schools in 11 states are named Pleasant Hill Elementary. Pleasant Hill Elementary School is the 13th largest of the 15.
- Pleasant Hill Elementary SchoolWinfield, IL · 583 students
- Pleasant Hill Elementary SchoolPalatine, IL · 435 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
- Pleasant Hill High School0.1 mi · 99
- BONCL Elem.9.8 mi · 39
- LOUISIANA ELEM.10.7 mi · 343
- LOUISIANA HIGH10.9 mi · 187
- LOUISIANA MIDDLE10.9 mi · 151
- CLOPTON ELEM.10.9 mi · 210
Frequently asked questions
About Pleasant Hill Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Pleasant Hill Elementary School?
Pleasant Hill Elementary School enrolls approximately 254 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Pleasant Hill Elementary School serve?
Pleasant Hill Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many teachers does Pleasant Hill Elementary School have?
Pleasant Hill Elementary School employs 22 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.3:1.
How diverse is Pleasant Hill Elementary School?
Pleasant Hill Elementary School reports a student body of 94% White, 2% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Pleasant Hill Elementary School?
Pleasant Hill Elementary School is overseen by Pleasant Hill CUSD 3 in Pike County.
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