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Pleasant Valley HS
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Pleasant Valley HS
Pleasant Valley HS is a four-year high school of heavily attended scale in Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Pleasant Valley SD, caters to 1,276 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 73% larger than the state mean of about 738.
Pleasant Valley HS is one of 4 schools operated by Pleasant Valley SD, a district that educates 3,989 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Pleasant Valley HS logs that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 19% Hispanic, 7% Black, 5% multiracial.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.
In the surrounding community, Monroe County reports that median household income runs about $83,565, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Monroe County runs 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,752 students), of which Pleasant Valley HS is one.
Nearest neighbor: Pleasant Valley MS, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Pleasant Valley HS.
The campus sits in an outlying setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 24%: 1,671 students in 2018 compared to 1,276 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 75% to 68%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 today.
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