Mount Pleasant Middle School

Set in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, Mount Pleasant Middle School is a mid-sized 6-8 campus, one of the schools within Mount Pleasant Comm School District. It educates 383 students across grades 6 through 8.

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

In terms of who attends, Mount Pleasant Middle School logs that White students make up the majority at 79%. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 88% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Mount Pleasant Middle School shows 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mount Pleasant Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 69.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 71.0%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Henry County shows median household earnings sit near $67,436, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Mount Pleasant Middle School is one of 13 public schools in Henry County (combined enrollment of about 3,230 students).

The closest other public school is WisdomQuest Education Center, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Mount Pleasant Middle School. On composite proficiency, Mount Pleasant Middle School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 66.1%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Mount Pleasant Middle School's enrollment has ticked down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 426 (now 383).

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