Pleasant Ridge Elem

Pleasant Ridge Elem is a K-5 school of average-sized scale in Overland Park, Kansas, part of Olathe, educateing 304 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Olathe runs 52 schools in total, collectively educating 28,194 students. Pleasant Ridge Elem is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pleasant Ridge Elem logs that White students make up the majority at 59%. The remainder looks like 12% Black, 11% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.

In terms of school funding signals, Pleasant Ridge Elem logs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 21% of students at Pleasant Ridge Elem qualify 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, Pleasant Ridge Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.1%, the actual is 61.7%, a residual of +9.6 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Johnson County indicate median household earnings sit near $109,208, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Johnson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students), of which Pleasant Ridge Elem is one.

The closest other public school is Heatherstone Elem, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Pleasant Ridge Elem at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 57.3%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Pleasant Ridge Elem's enrollment has declined 10% since 2018, when it stood at 338 (now 304). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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