Pleasant Ridge Elementary School

Pleasant Ridge Elementary School, a moderately sized elementary-level community in SALINE, Michigan, operated by Saline Area Schools, serves 474 students, covering grades K through 3. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Pleasant Ridge Elementary School sits 28% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Saline Area Schools, which oversees 8 schools and 4,596 students, Pleasant Ridge Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Pleasant Ridge Elementary School lists that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 7% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Pleasant Ridge Elementary School reports 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 14% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Washtenaw County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pleasant Ridge Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.9%; this one delivers 67.7%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Washtenaw County) records that median household income runs about $89,180, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Washtenaw County's 104 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,861 students), Pleasant Ridge Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Young Adult Program is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Pleasant Ridge Elementary School at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 69.4%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 11%: 428 students in 2018 compared to 474 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 90% to 82%. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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