Pleasant Lake Montessori School

Pleasant Lake Montessori School, a micro-enrollment elementary school in Pleasant Lake, Indiana, overseen by MSD Steuben County, instructs 99 students, covering grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 77% smaller than the state mean of about 436.

MSD Steuben County comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,492 students; Pleasant Lake Montessori School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Pleasant Lake Montessori School shows that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. Compared to Steuben County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Steuben County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pleasant Lake Montessori School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.1%, the actual is 26.5%, a residual of +2.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Steuben County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,911 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Steuben County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,471 students), Pleasant Lake Montessori School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hendry Park Elementary School, around 3.9 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pleasant Lake Montessori School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.4%.

Pleasant Lake Montessori School operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 33%: 147 students in 2018 compared to 99 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, members of the Pleasant Lake Montessori School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.