Pleasant Hill Elementary School

Pleasant Hill Elementary School operates as an average-sized elementary campus in Pleasant Hill, Oregon, run under Pleasant Hill SD 1. Current enrollment sits at 417 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 30% larger than the state mean of about 321.

Pleasant Hill SD 1 runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 947 students. Pleasant Hill Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Pleasant Hill Elementary School shows that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Pleasant Hill Elementary School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 53% of students at Pleasant Hill Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Lane County's rate of about 76%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pleasant Hill Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.0%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Lane County put the typical household earns roughly $71,544 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Lane County runs 117 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,240 students), of which Pleasant Hill Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Pleasant Hill High School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Pleasant Hill Elementary School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 29.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 415 students in 2018 compared to 417 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 in 2025.

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