Pleasantview Elementary

Pleasantview Elementary is one of the well-populated elementary schools in SAUK RAPIDS, Minnesota, run under Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools, with 734 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 113% bigger than typical.

Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 4,331 students; Pleasantview Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Pleasantview Elementary lists that 75% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school reports 12% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 42% of students at Pleasantview Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Pleasantview Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.5%, the actual is 42.2%, a residual of -0.3 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Benton County shows median household income runs about $74,410, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Benton County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,680 students), Pleasantview Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hillside Early Childhood Center, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Pleasantview Elementary at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 31.9%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Pleasantview Elementary's enrollment has decreased 11% since 2018, when it stood at 825 (now 734). The White share of enrollment shrank from 85% to 75% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Pleasantview Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.