Mount Pleasant Elementary School

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in LIVINGSTON, New Jersey, Mount Pleasant Elementary School instructs 407 students from grades K through 5, part of Livingston Board of Education School District.

Across the 9 schools in Livingston Board of Education School District (6,352 students total), Mount Pleasant Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Mount Pleasant Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Asian (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 42% White, 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 6% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Mount Pleasant Elementary School has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 1% 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 Essex County's rate of about 54%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mount Pleasant Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.8%, the actual is 80.3%, a residual of +14.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Essex County reports that median household income runs about $80,789, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Essex County's 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), Mount Pleasant Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mount Pleasant Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mount Pleasant Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 71.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 6%: 431 students in 2018 compared to 407 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 62% to 42%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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