Mount Pleasant Elementary

Set in Roanoke, Virginia, Mount Pleasant Elementary is a close-knit K-5 school, one of the schools within Roanoke County Public Schools. It instructs 246 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Mount Pleasant Elementary sits 51% leaner than that benchmark.

Mount Pleasant Elementary is one of 26 schools operated by Roanoke County Public Schools, a district that serves 13,735 students overall.

On demographics, Mount Pleasant Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 13% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, 2% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.9:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Roanoke County's rate of about 49%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mount Pleasant Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Virginia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 65.3%; Mount Pleasant Elementary posts 83.5%, +18.2 points above that line.

In the area at large, Roanoke County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,709 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Roanoke County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,154 students), of which Mount Pleasant Elementary is one.

Garden City Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mount Pleasant Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 65.5%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Mount Pleasant Elementary's enrollment has shrank 22% since 2018, when it stood at 315 (now 246). White enrollment moved from 88% to 74% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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