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Pleasant Hill High School

2601 W 2nd Street, Pleasant Hill, LA 71065 · (318) 796-3670 · Sabine Parish
GRADES PK–12COMBINED43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL228 STUDENTS
Enrollment
228
Combined
DISTRICT 352 · STATE 527
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 52.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
190 students
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 70%
Community
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Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Pre-K
12
Kindergarten
6
Grade 1
17
Grade 2
19
Grade 3
18
Grade 4
12
Grade 5
10
Grade 6
15
Grade 7
23
Grade 8
19
Grade 9
16
Grade 10
22
Grade 11
19
Grade 12
20
Student demographics
White
9843%
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 41%
Hispanic
31%
DISTRICT 3% · STATE 12%
Black
10546%
DISTRICT 22% · STATE 42%
Two+
125%
DISTRICT 9% · STATE 4%
Native American
104%
DISTRICT 14% · STATE 1%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Male
13057%
Female
9843%

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Test scores

LEAP 2025 2023-24 . % Mastery+
English Language Arts
16.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -8.0pp since 2022
Math
9.0%
LA avg 32.1% . +0.0pp since 2022

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.

Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
12.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.5%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.2pp
below demographic expectation

What 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%.

BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →

7-year change

SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25
Enrollment
228
-84 (-27%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
was 16.9:1
% White
43%
was 58%
% Hispanic
1%
was 3%
% Black
46%
was 33%
% Asian
0%
was 0%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data

About 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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Population
21,977
Census ACS
Median income
$50,329
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
14%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
18%
Below federal line
Schools in county
10
3,741 students

Quick facts

School name
Pleasant Hill High School
District
Sabine Parish
Address
2601 W 2nd Street, Pleasant Hill, LA 71065
Phone
(318) 796-3670
County
Sabine Parish
Level
Combined
Grade range
PK–12
Total enrollment
228
Teachers (FTE)
22
Student–teacher ratio
10.2:1
Free/Reduced lunch
190 (83%)
Locale
43-Rural: Remote
NCES ID
220138001116
Charter school
No
Virtual school
No

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Frequently asked questions

About Pleasant Hill High School
What is the total enrollment at Pleasant Hill High School?
Pleasant Hill High School enrolls approximately 228 students in grades PK-12.
Is Pleasant Hill High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Pleasant Hill High School is a combined-grade school covering grades PK-12.
How many students per teacher at Pleasant Hill High School?
Approximately 10.2:1 students per teacher at Pleasant Hill High School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Pleasant Hill High School?
At Pleasant Hill High School, the student body is approximately 43% White, 1% Hispanic, 46% Black, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Pleasant Hill High School?
Pleasant Hill High School is overseen by Sabine Parish in Sabine Parish.
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