Pleasant Plains High School

Pleasant Plains High School operates as a compact secondary school in Pleasant Plains, Illinois, one of the schools within Pleasant Plains CUSD 8. Current enrollment sits at 416 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 50% leaner than the state mean of about 834.

Across the 3 schools in Pleasant Plains CUSD 8 (1,294 students total), Pleasant Plains High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Pleasant Plains High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). The remainder is composed of 3% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 78%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Pleasant Plains High School has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Sangamon County put median household income runs about $75,357, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Sangamon County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,345 students), Pleasant Plains High School is one campus in the mix.

A-C Central Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.1 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Pleasant Plains High School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 420 (now 416).

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