Pleasant Hill High School
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2023-24 . % Mastery+What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 16 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 9 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 32. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2022, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 12% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Louisiana's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Pleasant Hill High School
As a cozy K-12 campus in Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, Pleasant Hill High School works with 228 students from grades pre-K through 12, run under Sabine Parish. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 527 students each, so Pleasant Hill High School sits 57% smaller than that benchmark.
Across the 10 schools in Sabine Parish (3,741 students total), Pleasant Hill High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Pleasant Hill High School logs that the most-represented group is Black (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 43% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Native American. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 52.1:1 average. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Sabine Parish's rate of about 70%.
After controlling for student poverty, Pleasant Hill High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.5%, the actual is 12.3%, a residual of -12.2 points.
In the area at large, Sabine Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $50,329 per year, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 18% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Sabine Parish runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,741 students), of which Pleasant Hill High School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Marthaville Elementary & Junior High School, around 8.5 miles off. On composite proficiency, Pleasant Hill High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 30.8%.
Pleasant Hill High School operates from a small-town location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 27%: 312 students in 2018 compared to 228 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 58% to 43% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.
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Sabine Parish at a glance
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