Pleasant Middle School

Pleasant Middle School operates as a moderately sized 6-8 campus in Marion, Ohio, run under Pleasant Local. Current enrollment sits at 438 students spanning grades 5 through 8.

Within Pleasant Local, which oversees 3 schools and 1,265 students, Pleasant Middle School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Pleasant Middle School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Pleasant Middle School shows 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 31.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Marion County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Pleasant Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.8%, the actual is 65.7%, a residual of -7.1 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Marion County) logs that median household earnings sit near $59,371, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Pleasant Middle School is one of 27 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 12,492 students).

Pleasant High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Pleasant Middle School's enrollment has rose 47% since 2018, when it stood at 297 (now 438). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 31.3:1 today.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.