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What's something Pleasant Lake Elementary School does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
461
Elementary
DISTRICT 441 · STATE 369
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WALLED LAKE CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS·NCES 263516007675
Pleasant Lake Elementary School
4900 HALSTED RD, WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI 48323 · (248) 956-2800 · Oakland County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL461 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 41% of Michigan public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Michigan public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.4:1 · STATE 15.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
224 students
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 55%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 91 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 79 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is 5% smaller than its 5th grade class (79).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 56% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientEnglish Language Arts
45.4%
MI avg 47.7%
Math
40.9%
MI avg 44.8%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
Source: M-STEP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
43.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.8%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% typical for Michigan 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 Michigan'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 →
Schools most like Pleasant Lake Elementary School
Pleasant Lake Elementary School's state test result (43.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Lake Elementary School this school | 461 | 48.6% | 43.3% |
| Graebner Elementary School STERLING HEIGHTS | 509 | 53.0% | 41.6% |
| Wilde Elementary School WARREN | 496 | 50.4% | 35.8% |
| Reid Elementary School GRAND BLANC | 433 | 46.0% | 41.1% |
| Indian Hill Elementary School GRAND BLANC | 406 | 45.1% | 50.0% |
| JA Lanigan Elementary School FARMINGTON HILLS | 473 | 43.3% | 41.0% |
Matched among Michigan elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Pleasant Lake Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Michigan | In Oakland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.3% | #623 of 1,085 | #118 of 147 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.9% | #651 of 1,072 | #116 of 144 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.4% | #623 of 1,139 | #120 of 157 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 461 | #406 of 1,630 | #59 of 178 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #222 of 1,424 | #29 of 170 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.7% | #361 of 1,424 | #63 of 170 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.6% | #920 of 1,563 | #49 of 175 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.8% | #311 of 979 | #30 of 118 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
461
-28 (-6%) vs 2020
-21% since 2000-01, when it was 584
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 18.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 461 | 33.7 | 13.7:1 | 49% (224) |
| 2023-24 | 485 | 32.1 | 15.1:1 | 50% (242) |
| 2022-23 | 479 | 29.1 | 16.5:1 | 50% (238) |
| 2020-21 | 489 | 27 | 18.1:1 | 44% (213) |
| 2017-18 | 561 | 31.6 | 17.8:1 | 39% (217) |
| 2015-16 | 615 | 36 | 17.1:1 | 27% (167) |
| 2010-11 | 525 | 30 | 17.5:1 | 26% (137) |
| 2000-01 | 584 | 35 | 16.7:1 | 5% (30) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pleasant Lake Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (561 to 461); teachers up 7% (31.6 to 33.7).
About Pleasant Lake Elementary School
Students in WEST BLOOMFIELD, Michigan, attend Pleasant Lake Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. It offers kindergarten through 5 and has 461 students enrolled. It has 25% more students than the average for elementary schools in Michigan (about 369).
Walled Lake Consolidated Schools is the local district for Pleasant Lake Elementary School. It runs 19 schools with 11,640 students.
About 62% of the student body at Pleasant Lake Elementary School is White. Other groups include 21% Black, 7% Asian, 5% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. A diversity index of 56% means there is a 56% chance two randomly chosen students at Pleasant Lake Elementary School are from different groups.
Pleasant Lake Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.7:1, with 33.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 15.8:1 average for elementary schools in Michigan, this school's ratio is lower. The school has 49% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Oakland County, the average eligibility rate is 32%.
Pleasant Lake Elementary School earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 41% of Michigan public elementary schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 43.3%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 44.8%.
In Oakland County, home to about 1,279,825 people, the median household earns about $97,760 a year, roughly 51% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Pleasant Lake Elementary School shares Oakland County with 344 other public schools.
Measured in a straight line, Walnut Creek Middle School is about 1.2 miles from Pleasant Lake Elementary School. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Pleasant Lake Elementary School ranks 6th of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 43.3% against a local average of 52.1%.
Under the NCES locale system, Pleasant Lake Elementary School is Suburb: Large.
A 6% decrease took enrollment from 489 in 2020-21 to 461 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 18.1:1 to 13.7:1.
The allk12 page for Pleasant Lake Elementary School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Oakland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,279,825
Census ACS
Median income
$97,760
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
345
169,926 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Walled Lake Consolidated Schools
- Walled Lake Northern High SchoolHigh · 1,383 students
- Walled Lake Central High SchoolHigh · 1,182 students
- Walled Lake Western High SchoolHigh · 1,033 students
- Clifford H Smart Middle SchoolMiddle · 888 students
- Walnut Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 641 students
- James R Geisler Middle SchoolHigh · 620 students
Other schools in WEST BLOOMFIELD
- West Bloomfield High SchoolHigh · 1,434 students
- Walnut Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 641 students
- Scotch Elementary SchoolElementary · 556 students
- Keith Elementary SchoolElementary · 542 students
- Sheiko Elementary SchoolElementary · 534 students
- Doherty Elementary SchoolElementary · 476 students
Nearby schools
- Walnut Creek Middle School1.2 mi · 641
- Scotch Elementary School1.8 mi · 556
- Project Search1.9 mi · 1
- Sheiko Elementary School2.2 mi · 534
- Keith Elementary School2.3 mi · 542
- Oakley Park Elementary School2.6 mi · 392
Frequently asked questions
About Pleasant Lake Elementary SchoolHow large is Pleasant Lake Elementary School?
Pleasant Lake Elementary School enrolls approximately 461 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Pleasant Lake Elementary School serve?
Pleasant Lake Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Pleasant Lake Elementary School?
Approximately 13.7:1 students per teacher at Pleasant Lake Elementary School.
How diverse is Pleasant Lake Elementary School?
Pleasant Lake Elementary School reports a student body of 62% White, 5% Hispanic, 21% Black, 7% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Pleasant Lake Elementary School?
Pleasant Lake Elementary School is overseen by Walled Lake Consolidated Schools in Oakland County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.