Pleasant Valley High School

Pleasant Valley High School is an expansive senior high in Bettendorf, Iowa, operated by Pleasant Valley Comm School District. The school educates 1,731 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 468 students each, so Pleasant Valley High School sits 270% larger than that benchmark.

Pleasant Valley Comm School District runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 5,696 students. Pleasant Valley High School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Pleasant Valley High School shows that 74% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 11% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 98 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 11% of students at Pleasant Valley High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Scott County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Pleasant Valley High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 86.4%, the actual is 86.2%, a residual of -0.2 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Scott County put median household earnings sit near $78,277, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Pleasant Valley High School is one of 53 public schools in Scott County (combined enrollment of about 26,100 students).

Nearest neighbor: Riverdale Heights Elem School, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Pleasant Valley High School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 77.5%.

Pleasant Valley High School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pleasant Valley High School has edged up 21%, going from 1,427 students in 2018 to 1,731 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 81% to 74% over that span.

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