Mount Pleasant Elementary School

Mount Pleasant Elementary School is a small elementary-level community in Ferguson, North Carolina, part of Wilkes County Schools. The school instructs 237 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 49% leaner than the state mean of about 467.

Mount Pleasant Elementary School is one of 22 schools operated by Wilkes County Schools, a district that enrolls 8,547 students overall.

On demographics, Mount Pleasant Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). Beyond that, the school records 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Wilkes County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, Mount Pleasant Elementary School has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.5:1. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 99% of students at Mount Pleasant Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Mount Pleasant Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.7%, the actual is 47.8%, a residual of -0.8 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Wilkes County put the typical household earns roughly $51,721 per year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Wilkes County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,547 students), of which Mount Pleasant Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Boomer-Ferguson Elementary School, roughly 3.7 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mount Pleasant Elementary School at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 59.2%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mount Pleasant Elementary School has grew 6%, going from 224 students in 2018 to 237 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 91% to 85% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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