Pleasant Ridge Middle

Pleasant Ridge Middle is a cozy middle school in Easton, Kansas, operated by Easton. The school instructs 173 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 57% smaller than the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 402 students.

Easton comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 685 students; Pleasant Ridge Middle is among them.

Demographically, Pleasant Ridge Middle records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Beyond that, the school reports 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Pleasant Ridge Middle has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Pleasant Ridge Middle higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 20% of students at Pleasant Ridge Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Leavenworth County's rate of about 34%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pleasant Ridge Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.8%, the actual is 38.8%, a residual of -14.0 points.

In the broader community, census data for Leavenworth County shows the typical household earns roughly $89,218 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Leavenworth County's 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,185 students), Pleasant Ridge Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Pleasant Ridge High, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Pleasant Ridge Middle. On composite proficiency, Pleasant Ridge Middle comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 51.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 9%: 158 students in 2018 compared to 173 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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