Van Allen Elementary School

Van Allen Elementary School is one of the medium-sized elementary schools in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, overseen by Mount Pleasant Comm School District, with 362 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5.

Within Mount Pleasant Comm School District, which oversees 8 schools and 2,011 students, Van Allen Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Van Allen Elementary School shows that White students make up the majority at 76%. The remainder looks like 14% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Black, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.

On the resource side, The school employs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Van Allen Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Van Allen Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.1%, the actual is 61.1%, a residual of -6.0 points.

In the area at large, census data for Henry County shows 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%. In all, Henry County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,230 students), of which Van Allen Elementary School is one.

WisdomQuest Education Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Van Allen Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Van Allen Elementary School at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 67.8%.

Van Allen Elementary School operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Van Allen Elementary School's enrollment has edged up 11% since 2018, when it stood at 327 (now 362). White enrollment moved from 69% to 76% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.