PLEASANT HILL PRIMARY

Located at 304 EKLUND ST, in PLEASANT HILL, Missouri, PLEASANT HILL PRIMARY is a reasonably sized primary school that works with 396 students (grades pre-K through 2), overseen by PLEASANT HILL R-III. That puts it 26% larger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

PLEASANT HILL R-III comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,080 students; PLEASANT HILL PRIMARY is among them.

Demographically, PLEASANT HILL PRIMARY logs that nearly all students (85%) are White. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Cass County as a whole.

On the resource side, PLEASANT HILL PRIMARY records 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 24% of students at PLEASANT HILL PRIMARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Cass County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Cass County put the typical household earns roughly $87,535 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PLEASANT HILL PRIMARY is one of 44 public schools in Cass County (combined enrollment of about 17,093 students).

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

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PLEASANT HILL PRIMARY has contracted 27%, going from 542 students in 2018 to 396 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 92% to 85%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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