PLEASANT LEA MIDDLE

PLEASANT LEA MIDDLE is a high-enrollment middle school in LEE'S SUMMIT, Missouri, one of the schools within LEE'S SUMMIT R-VII. The school enrolls 905 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 96% bigger than the state mean of about 461.

LEE'S SUMMIT R-VII comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 17,695 students; PLEASANT LEA MIDDLE is among them.

On the student-mix side, PLEASANT LEA MIDDLE records that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 11% Black, 11% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, PLEASANT LEA MIDDLE has 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 29% of students at PLEASANT LEA MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Jackson County (around 60%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PLEASANT LEA MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.7%; this one delivers 51.5%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate median household income runs about $68,577, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Jackson County runs 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), of which PLEASANT LEA MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: PLEASANT LEA ELEM., around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PLEASANT LEA MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, PLEASANT LEA MIDDLE comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 57.1%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 885 students in 2018 compared to 905 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 73% to 66% across the same window.

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