Pleasant Lake Elementary School

Set in WEST BLOOMFIELD, Michigan, Pleasant Lake Elementary School is an average-sized elementary campus, operated by Walled Lake Consolidated Schools. It hosts 461 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 25% larger than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 369 students.

Across the 19 schools in Walled Lake Consolidated Schools (11,640 students total), Pleasant Lake Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pleasant Lake Elementary School lists that White students make up the majority at 62%; the rest is composed of 21% Black, 7% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Pleasant Lake Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 49% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Oakland County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Pleasant Lake Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.3%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Oakland County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,760 per year, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Oakland County's 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), Pleasant Lake Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Walnut Creek Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pleasant Lake Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Pleasant Lake Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 52.1%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pleasant Lake Elementary School has ticked down 18%, going from 561 students in 2018 to 461 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 67% to 62% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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