Pleasant View Elementary School

Pleasant View Elementary School, an intimate K-5 school in Williamsburg, Kentucky, overseen by Whitley County, teaches 229 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 46% below the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 421 students.

Whitley County runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 4,234 students. Pleasant View Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Pleasant View Elementary School reports that nearly all students (98%) are White. Compared to Whitley County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, Pleasant View Elementary School has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Pleasant View Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Whitley County (around 71%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Pleasant View Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 32.6%; this one delivers 67.8%, a residual of +35.2 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Whitley County indicate median household earnings sit near $44,615, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 21%. Pleasant View Elementary School is one of 21 public schools in Whitley County (combined enrollment of about 7,324 students).

Williamsburg City School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.7 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pleasant View Elementary School comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.9%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pleasant View Elementary School has fell 21%, going from 290 students in 2018 to 229 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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