Pleasant Ridge Elementary

Located at 20753 Easton Road, in Easton, Kansas, Pleasant Ridge Elementary is an average-sized elementary-level community that instructs 344 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Easton.

Within Easton, which oversees 3 schools and 685 students, Pleasant Ridge Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Pleasant Ridge Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). The remainder comes out to 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Leavenworth County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Pleasant Ridge Elementary has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 30% of students at Pleasant Ridge Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Pleasant Ridge Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.7%, the actual is 58.6%, a residual of +10.9 points.

In the broader community, census data for Leavenworth County shows the typical household earns roughly $89,218 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Leavenworth County runs 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,185 students), of which Pleasant Ridge Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Pleasant Ridge High, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Pleasant Ridge Elementary at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 48.5%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pleasant Ridge Elementary has edged up 42%, going from 243 students in 2018 to 344 in 2025.

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