PLEASANT HILL MIDDLE

As a close-knit middle-grades school in PLEASANT HILL, Missouri, PLEASANT HILL MIDDLE instructs 328 students from grades 7 through 8, one of the schools within PLEASANT HILL R-III. That puts it 29% below the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 461 students.

PLEASANT HILL R-III runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,080 students. PLEASANT HILL MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

On demographics, PLEASANT HILL MIDDLE records that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Cass County's rate of about 35%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cass County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $87,535 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is PLEASANT HILL PRIMARY, roughly 0.2 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

PLEASANT HILL MIDDLE operates from a town-based location.

Five-year trend. PLEASANT HILL MIDDLE's enrollment has ticked up 4% since 2018, when it stood at 316 (now 328). Over the same period, the White share declined from 92% to 85%. Class-load math has fell: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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