Mount Pleasant High School

Mount Pleasant High School is one of the mid-tier 9-12 campuss in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, one of the schools within Mount Pleasant Comm School District, with 545 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.

Mount Pleasant High School is one of 8 schools operated by Mount Pleasant Comm School District, a district that hosts 2,011 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mount Pleasant High School records that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 15% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Mount Pleasant High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mount Pleasant High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 72.4%; this one delivers 66.1%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Henry County indicate median household earnings sit near $67,436, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Mount Pleasant High School is one of 13 public schools in Henry County (combined enrollment of about 3,230 students).

Nearest neighbor: Lincoln Elementary School, around 1.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Mount Pleasant High School. On composite proficiency, Mount Pleasant High School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 66.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Mount Pleasant High School's enrollment has edged down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 597 (now 545).

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