PLEASANT HOPE MIDDLE

As an one-room-style middle-grades school in PLEASANT HOPE, Missouri, PLEASANT HOPE MIDDLE enrolls 168 students from grades 5 through 8, part of PLEASANT HOPE R-VI. Enrollment runs roughly 64% smaller than the state mean of about 461.

PLEASANT HOPE R-VI runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 650 students. PLEASANT HOPE MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PLEASANT HOPE MIDDLE reports that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 5% Hispanic. Compared to Polk County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, PLEASANT HOPE MIDDLE logs 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Polk County) logs that median household income runs about $59,647, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Polk County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,965 students), of which PLEASANT HOPE MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: PLEASANT HOPE ELEM., around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around PLEASANT HOPE MIDDLE.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 35%: 259 students in 2018 compared to 168 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 97% to 92% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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