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Enrollment
578
Elementary
DISTRICT 558 · STATE 436
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLARK-PLEASANT COMMUNITY SCH CORP·NCES 180189002411
Pleasant Crossing Elementary
3030 N 125 W, Whiteland, IN 46184 · (317) 535-3244 · Johnson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL578 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 85% of Indiana public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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 Indiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 15.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
347 students
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 50%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 93 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 106 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 94 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 112 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (112).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 57% · 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
Based on grade levels within Clark-Pleasant Community Sch Corp. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyEnglish Language Arts
58.2%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
56.4%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
Source: ILEARN. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IN schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
51.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.1%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 33% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Indiana's top 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 Crossing Elementary
Pleasant Crossing Elementary's state test result (51.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Crossing Elementary this school | 578 | 60.0% | 51.7% |
| Ray Crowe Elementary Greenwood | 611 | 63.8% | 37.8% |
| Thompson Crossing Elementary Sch Indianapolis | 568 | 54.9% | 44.4% |
| Rosa Parks Elementary School Indianapolis | 658 | 58.4% | 39.8% |
| Whiteland Elementary School Whiteland | 370 | 55.9% | 51.9% |
| Glenwood Park Elementary School Fort Wayne | 532 | 66.9% | 35.3% |
Matched among Indiana 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 Crossing Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Indiana | In Johnson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.7% | #273 of 983 | #10 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.4% | #299 of 986 | #9 of 23 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.2% | #141 of 986 | #5 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 578 | #216 of 1,079 | #9 of 24 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #374 of 991 | #6 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.4% | #267 of 996 | #5 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 60.0% | #354 of 1,058 | #5 of 24 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.9% | #159 of 597 | #2 of 14 |
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
578
-150 (-21%) vs 2020
+8% since 2010-11, when it was 536
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 17.3:1
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 | 578 | 40.1 | 14.4:1 | 60% (347) |
| 2023-24 | 603 | 34.8 | 17.3:1 | 53% (317) |
| 2022-23 | 557 | 33.6 | 16.6:1 | 51% (284) |
| 2020-21 | 728 | 42 | 17.3:1 | 52% (378) |
| 2017-18 | 731 | 36 | 20.3:1 | 54% (395) |
| 2015-16 | 754 | 35 | 21.5:1 | 52% (390) |
| 2010-11 | 536 | 24 | 22.3:1 | 49% (265) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pleasant Crossing Elementary.
About Pleasant Crossing Elementary
This page covers Pleasant Crossing Elementary, a medium-sized elementary school in Whiteland, Indiana. The school reports 578 students in pre-K through 5. The school's enrollment is 33% bigger than the 436 average for elementary schools in Indiana.
Pleasant Crossing Elementary is in Clark-Pleasant Community Sch Corp, a district with 7,179 students across 8 schools.
A majority of students at Pleasant Crossing Elementary, 59%, are White. The remaining shares are 16% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 9% Black, and 7% multiracial. Johnson County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school's share is lower. The chance that two students picked at random at Pleasant Crossing Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 60%.
Pleasant Crossing Elementary counts 40.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 14.4 students for each one. The 15.5:1 average for elementary schools in Indiana is higher than this school's figure. About 60% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Johnson County is 41%.
allk12 grades Pleasant Crossing Elementary an A. The grade compares the school only with Indiana public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Pleasant Crossing Elementary posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 51.7%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Indiana are predicted to post 33.1%, so the school is 18.6 points ahead and in the state's top 10%.
Census estimates describe Johnson County this way: median household income is about $90,454, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 40 public schools in Johnson County, with a combined enrollment of about 28,824.
Greenwood Middle School is the public school closest to Pleasant Crossing Elementary, about 1.4 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Pleasant Crossing Elementary is 2nd of 7 nearby schools with test data.
Locale: Rural: Fringe. In NCES terms, the school is in rural territory close to an urban area.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 728 to 578. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio fell from 17.3:1 to 14.4:1.
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Johnson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
166,315
Census ACS
Median income
$90,454
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
40
28,824 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Clark-Pleasant Community Sch Corp
- Whiteland Community High SchoolHigh · 2,144 students
- Clark Pleasant Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,690 students
- Grassy Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 847 students
- Ray Crowe ElementaryElementary · 611 students
- Break-O-Day Elementary SchoolElementary · 499 students
- Clark Elementary SchoolElementary · 440 students
Other schools in Whiteland
- Whiteland Community High SchoolHigh · 2,144 students
- Whiteland Elementary SchoolElementary · 370 students
Nearby schools
- Greenwood Middle School1.4 mi · 964
- Break-O-Day Elementary School1.6 mi · 499
- Westwood Elementary School1.9 mi · 510
- Greenwood Community High Sch1.9 mi · 1,229
- Southwest Elementary School2.1 mi · 550
- Clark Pleasant Middle School2.7 mi · 1,690
Frequently asked questions
About Pleasant Crossing ElementaryHow many students attend Pleasant Crossing Elementary?
Pleasant Crossing Elementary enrolls approximately 578 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Pleasant Crossing Elementary serve?
Pleasant Crossing Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Pleasant Crossing Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Pleasant Crossing Elementary is approximately 14.4:1 (40 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Pleasant Crossing Elementary?
At Pleasant Crossing Elementary, the student body is approximately 59% White, 9% Hispanic, 9% Black, 16% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Pleasant Crossing Elementary public or private?
Pleasant Crossing Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Clark-Pleasant Community Sch Corp.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.