Pleasant Street School

As a mid-sized elementary campus in Laconia, New Hampshire, Pleasant Street School enrolls 255 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Laconia School District.

Laconia School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,808 students. Pleasant Street School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Pleasant Street School reports that nearly all students (85%) are White. The remainder comes out to 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Belknap County as a whole is about 93% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Pleasant Street School shows 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.1:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Belknap County (around 29%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pleasant Street School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.6%, the actual is 41.8%, a residual of +6.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Belknap County shows median household earnings sit near $92,783, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Belknap County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,344 students), of which Pleasant Street School is one.

Laconia Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pleasant Street School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.4%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 21%: 323 students in 2018 compared to 255 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 91% to 85% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.