PLEASANT HILL ELEM.

Located at 327 N MCKISSOCK, in PLEASANT HILL, Missouri, PLEASANT HILL ELEM. is a mid-tier elementary campus that works with 306 students (grades 3 through 4), overseen by PLEASANT HILL R-III.

Across the 5 schools in PLEASANT HILL R-III (2,080 students total), PLEASANT HILL ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, PLEASANT HILL ELEM. logs that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 21% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cass County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, Cass County reports that the typical household earns roughly $87,535 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Cass County's 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,093 students), PLEASANT HILL ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PLEASANT HILL MIDDLE, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 7%: 329 students in 2018 compared to 306 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 93% to 89% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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