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If you had an hour of school board time for Pleasant Grove Elementary, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
376
Elementary
DISTRICT 594 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WAKE COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370472003378
Pleasant Grove Elementary
3605 Pleasant Grove Church Rd, Morrisville, NC 27560 · (919) 694-8770 · Wake County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL376 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 43% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
30%
112 students
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 23 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 49 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 64 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 38 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 43 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 14% larger than its 5th grade class (43).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
59.2%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
64.7%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.8%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among North Carolina's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Pleasant Grove Elementary
Pleasant Grove Elementary's state test result (60.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Grove Elementary this school | 376 | 29.8% | 60.9% |
| Washington Elementary Raleigh | 514 | 28.6% | 69.6% |
| Fuller Elementary Raleigh | 545 | 39.6% | 67.7% |
| Green Hope Elementary Cary | 548 | 14.4% | 85.0% |
| Parkside Elementary Morrisville | 730 | 21.9% | 80.8% |
| Mills Park Elementary Cary | 594 | 17.7% | 88.9% |
Matched among North Carolina elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Pleasant Grove Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Wake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.9% | #472 of 1,297 | #72 of 120 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.7% | #481 of 1,296 | #69 of 120 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.2% | #347 of 1,300 | #70 of 121 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 376 | #980 of 1,485 | #128 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #187 of 1,377 | #32 of 137 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.4% | #398 of 1,379 | #59 of 137 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 29.8% | #1,304 of 1,414 | #94 of 128 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.1% | #142 of 937 | #12 of 91 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
376
-242 (-39%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 14.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 376 | 29.4 | 12.8:1 | 30% (112) |
| 2023-24 | 523 | 38 | 13.8:1 | 46% (239) |
| 2022-23 | 583 | 44 | 13.3:1 | 48% (281) |
| 2020-21 | 618 | 42 | 14.7:1 | 35% (217) |
| 2017-18 | 509 | 34 | 15.0:1 | 40% (205) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pleasant Grove Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (509 to 376); teachers down 13% (34 to 29.4).
About Pleasant Grove Elementary
Pleasant Grove Elementary is a small elementary school in Morrisville, North Carolina. A federal count lists 376 students at the school, in pre-K through 5.
Wake County Schools, which runs Pleasant Grove Elementary, has 198 schools and 163,176 students.
Asian students are the majority at Pleasant Grove Elementary, with 51% of enrollment. Enrollment also includes 19% Black, 17% White, 6% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. The school's Asian share is 43 points above the 9% share among Wake County residents. The school's diversity index is 66%, meaning two students picked at random have a 66% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Pleasant Grove Elementary counts 29.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 12.8 students for each one. This ratio sits 2.1 below the 14.9:1 average for elementary schools in North Carolina. About 30% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. The average for public schools in Wake County is 42%.
The allk12 Grade for Pleasant Grove Elementary is C+. Compared with North Carolina public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 43% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
A school with Pleasant Grove Elementary's lunch-eligibility share in North Carolina is predicted to score 69.8%. Pleasant Grove Elementary scores 60.9%, 8.9 points below that line.
According to the American Community Survey, in Wake County, the median household income is $105,768, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. There are 237 public schools in Wake County, enrolling about 184,790 students in all.
The closest public school to Pleasant Grove Elementary is Brier Creek Elementary, about 1.3 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, Pleasant Grove Elementary is behind the 61.2% nearby average, ranking 3rd of 5.
Locale: City: Mid-size. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 242 fewer students in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 14.7:1; by 2024-25 it was 12.8:1.
Topics for discussion here include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Wake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,178,653
Census ACS
Median income
$105,768
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
237
184,790 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wake County Schools
- Apex Friendship HighHigh · 2,748 students
- Enloe HighHigh · 2,643 students
- Panther Creek HighHigh · 2,609 students
- Millbrook HighHigh · 2,498 students
- Apex HighHigh · 2,449 students
- Leesville Road HighHigh · 2,411 students
Other schools in Morrisville
- Cedar Fork ElementaryElementary · 778 students
- Parkside ElementaryElementary · 730 students
- Sterling Montessori AcademyElementary · 702 students
- Morrisville ElementaryElementary · 643 students
- Wake EC of Information & BiotechnologiesHigh · 260 students
Other Pleasant Grove Elementary schools
11 other US public schools in 8 states are named Pleasant Grove Elementary. Pleasant Grove Elementary is the 10th largest of the 12.
- Pleasant Grove ElementaryBurlington, NC · 271 students
- Pleasant Grove Elementary SchoolGreenwood, IN · 739 students
- PLEASANT GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPENSACOLA, FL · 678 students
- Pleasant Grove Elementary SchoolMount Washington, KY · 661 students
- PLEASANT GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLINVERNESS, FL · 637 students
Nearby schools
- Brier Creek Elementary1.3 mi · 642
- The Institute Development Young Leaders1.9 mi · 419
- Wake EC of Information & Biotechnologies2.6 mi · 260
- Research Triangle High School3.1 mi · 572
- Cedar Fork Elementary3.6 mi · 778
- Bethesda Elementary3.8 mi · 442
Frequently asked questions
About Pleasant Grove ElementaryHow many students attend Pleasant Grove Elementary?
Pleasant Grove Elementary enrolls approximately 376 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Pleasant Grove Elementary serve?
Pleasant Grove Elementary serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Pleasant Grove Elementary have?
Pleasant Grove Elementary employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Pleasant Grove Elementary?
Student demographics at Pleasant Grove Elementary are roughly 17% White, 6% Hispanic, 19% Black, 51% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Pleasant Grove Elementary in?
Pleasant Grove Elementary is part of Wake County Schools.
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