Pleasant Grove Elementary

Pleasant Grove Elementary operates as a small elementary school in Burlington, North Carolina, run under Alamance-Burlington Schools. Current enrollment sits at 271 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Pleasant Grove Elementary sits 42% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Alamance-Burlington Schools, which oversees 37 schools and 22,661 students, Pleasant Grove Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Pleasant Grove Elementary lists that the largest single group is Black at 30%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 29% White, 29% Hispanic, 12% multiracial. By comparison, Alamance County as a whole is about 20% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Pleasant Grove Elementary reports 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Alamance County's rate of about 80%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pleasant Grove Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.1%.

Around the school, Alamance County reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,651 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Alamance County runs 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,737 students), of which Pleasant Grove Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Woodlawn Middle, roughly 7.1 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pleasant Grove Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 44.0%.

Pleasant Grove Elementary operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pleasant Grove Elementary has shrank 3%, going from 278 students in 2018 to 271 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 38% to 29% across the same window.

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