Pleasant View Elementary School

Set in Yorktown, Indiana, Pleasant View Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary campus, one of the schools within Yorktown Community Schools. It works with 618 students across grades K through 2. Enrollment runs roughly 42% above the state mean of about 436.

Across the 4 schools in Yorktown Community Schools (2,793 students total), Pleasant View Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Pleasant View Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 9% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 6% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Delaware County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Delaware County) records that median household earnings sit near $58,127, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Pleasant View Elementary School is one of 36 public schools in Delaware County (combined enrollment of about 15,683 students).

Yorktown High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Pleasant View Elementary School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 627 (now 618). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 84% to 77%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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