Pleasant Garden Elementary

Pleasant Garden Elementary, a mid-tier elementary-level community in Pleasant Garden, North Carolina, run under Guilford County Schools, instructs 453 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Pleasant Garden Elementary is one of 123 schools operated by Guilford County Schools, a district that caters to 68,535 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Pleasant Garden Elementary logs that White students make up the majority at 69%; the rest comes out to 14% Hispanic, 9% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Guilford County as a whole is about 48% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Pleasant Garden Elementary has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Guilford County (around 89%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pleasant Garden Elementary sits in the top 10% of North Carolina schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 48.5%; actual is 68.7%, +20.2 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, census data for Guilford County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,642 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Pleasant Garden Elementary is one of 143 public schools in Guilford County (combined enrollment of about 79,539 students).

Southeast Guilford High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.6 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pleasant Garden Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pleasant Garden Elementary has showed little movement, going from 455 students in 2018 to 453 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 8% to 14% across the same window.

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