Pleasant Hill School

Pleasant Hill School is an elementary school of compact scale in Scarborough, Maine, operated by Scarborough Public Schools, teacheing 180 students in grades K through 2. Compared to the state average of about 229 students per school, that is 21% leaner than typical.

Scarborough Public Schools comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,865 students; Pleasant Hill School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Pleasant Hill School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Beyond that, the school reports 4% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.5:1 average. Roughly 11% of students at Pleasant Hill School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Cumberland County's rate of about 34%.

Across the wider county, census data for Cumberland County shows median household income runs about $95,677, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Cumberland County's 99 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,224 students), Pleasant Hill School is one campus in the mix.

Scarborough High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Pleasant Hill School's enrollment has grew 5% since 2018, when it stood at 171 (now 180). The White share of enrollment fell from 95% to 89% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

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