Pleasant Valley El Sch

Set in McMurray, Pennsylvania, Pleasant Valley El Sch is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus, operated by Peters Township SD. It serves 495 students across grades K through 3.

Peters Township SD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 4,011 students. Pleasant Valley El Sch is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Pleasant Valley El Sch records that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 3% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 12% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Washington County (around 49%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Pleasant Valley El Sch is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 72.7%; this one delivers 94.8%, a residual of +22.1 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Washington County put median household income runs about $78,958, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Washington County runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,079 students), of which Pleasant Valley El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Peters Twp MS, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pleasant Valley El Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Pleasant Valley El Sch at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 78.4%.

Pleasant Valley El Sch operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 22%: 407 students in 2018 compared to 495 in 2025.

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