Pleasant Valley Elem

Pleasant Valley Elem, a medium-sized primary school in Wichita, Kansas, overseen by Wichita, caters to 308 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Wichita comprises 87 schools with combined enrollment of 47,545 students; Pleasant Valley Elem is among them.

In terms of who attends, Pleasant Valley Elem logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 73%. Other groups include 16% White, 7% multiracial, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 17% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Sedgwick County (around 63%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pleasant Valley Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.4%, the actual is 19.2%, a residual of -2.2 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Sedgwick County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,365 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Pleasant Valley Elem is one of 160 public schools in Sedgwick County (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students).

Nearest neighbor: Pleasant Valley Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pleasant Valley Elem. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Pleasant Valley Elem at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 27.4%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pleasant Valley Elem has decreased 18%, going from 375 students in 2018 to 308 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 67% to 73% over that span.

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