Enrollment
282
Elementary
DISTRICT 366 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCKINGHAM COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510339001509
Pleasant Valley Elementary
215 Pleasant Valley Rd, Harrisonburg, VA 22801 · (540) 434-4557 · Harrisonburg city
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL282 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 22% of Virginia public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Virginia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
211 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 66%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 25 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 45 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 35 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 36 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 48 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 37 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (56).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
53.0%
VA avg 74.2% . -4.0pp since 2022
Math
60.0%
VA avg 72.7% . -6.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 6 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.0% | 60.0% |
| 2023-24 | 55.0% | 64.0% |
| 2022-23 | 57.0% | 66.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
59.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.7%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Pleasant Valley Elementary
Pleasant Valley Elementary's state test result (59.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Valley Elementary this school | 282 | 74.8% | 59.0% |
| Lacey Spring Elementary Harrisonburg | 350 | 73.1% | 55.0% |
| Claude Thompson Elementary Marshall | 254 | 75.2% | 67.7% |
| Elmont Elementary Ashland | 383 | 68.7% | 72.4% |
| Stonewall Elementary Clear Brook | 391 | 77.2% | 57.7% |
| Burnley-Moran Elementary Charlottesville | 299 | 74.6% | 81.0% |
Matched among Virginia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Pleasant Valley Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Harrisonburg city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #856 of 1,101 | #2 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #899 of 1,111 ▼ 135 | #3 of 7 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #981 of 1,111 ▼ 27 | #2 of 7 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 282 | #996 of 1,176 | #7 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #589 of 1,105 | #2 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.5% | #552 of 1,106 | #4 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.8% | #582 of 1,157 | #7 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +36.9% | #19 of 324 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
282
+62 (+28%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 403
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 12.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 282 | 20 | 14.1:1 | 75% (211) |
| 2023-24 | 248 | 17.9 | 13.8:1 | 75% (185) |
| 2022-23 | 229 | 17 | 13.5:1 | 66% (150) |
| 2020-21 | 220 | 18 | 12.2:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 206 | 15 | 13.7:1 | 63% (130) |
| 2015-16 | 227 | 18 | 12.6:1 | 60% (136) |
| 2010-11 | 278 | 18 | 15.4:1 | 60% (167) |
| 2000-01 | 303 | 27 | 11.2:1 | 44% (133) |
| 1990-91 | 403 | 29 | 13.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pleasant Valley Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 37% (206 to 282); teachers up 33% (15 to 20).
About Pleasant Valley Elementary
Located in Harrisonburg, Virginia, Pleasant Valley Elementary is a small elementary school. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 282 students. That compares with an average of about 499 students for elementary schools in Virginia.
Pleasant Valley Elementary falls under Rockingham County Public Schools, which has 23 schools enrolling 11,679 students.
Federal enrollment data show Pleasant Valley Elementary is 53% White. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 7% Black, and 7% multiracial. The county population is about 64% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 61, compared with 70 nationally.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Pleasant Valley Elementary is 14.1:1, based on 20 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Virginia is about 13.8:1. Pleasant Valley Elementary counts 75% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Harrisonburg city, the average is 87%.
Among Virginia public elementary schools, Pleasant Valley Elementary outscored 22%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
Pleasant Valley Elementary posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 59.0%, compared with a predicted 67.7%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Virginia schools on BeatsExpectations.
Harrisonburg city is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $62,254, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Harrisonburg city's 13 public schools enroll about 6,934 students and include Pleasant Valley Elementary.
Pleasant Valley Elementary's nearest public school is Rocktown High (about 0.8 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 61.7%; Pleasant Valley Elementary's is 59.0%, ranking 6th of 8.
Pleasant Valley Elementary is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000, a location NCES labels City: Small.
A 28% rise took enrollment from 220 in 2020-21 to 282 in 2024-25. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (14.1:1) than in 2020-21 (12.2:1).
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Harrisonburg city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
51,392
Census ACS
Median income
$62,254
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
13
6,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rockingham County Public Schools
- Turner Ashby HighHigh · 998 students
- Broadway HighHigh · 932 students
- Spotswood HighHigh · 880 students
- East Rockingham HighHigh · 821 students
- J. Frank Hillyard MiddleMiddle · 726 students
- Wilbur S. Pence MiddleMiddle · 671 students
Other schools in Harrisonburg
- Rocktown HighHigh · 1,011 students
- Harrisonburg HighHigh · 998 students
- Thomas Harrison MiddleMiddle · 771 students
- Skyline MiddleMiddle · 738 students
- Bluestone ElementaryElementary · 566 students
- Waterman ElementaryElementary · 557 students
Other Pleasant Valley Elementary schools
15 other US public schools in 13 states are named Pleasant Valley Elementary. Pleasant Valley Elementary is the 11th largest of the 16.
- Pleasant Valley Elementary SchoolParma, OH · 971 students
- Pleasant Valley Elementary SchoolKunkletown, PA · 899 students
- Pleasant Valley Elementary SchoolMcMurray, PA · 495 students
- Pleasant Valley ElementaryNovato, CA · 464 students
- Pleasant Valley Elementary SchoolJacksonville, AL · 458 students
Nearby schools
- Rocktown High0.8 mi · 1,011
- Stone Spring Elementary1.8 mi · 554
- Wilbur S. Pence Middle2.4 mi · 671
- Keister Elementary2.7 mi · 475
- Harrisonburg High2.8 mi · 998
- Turner Ashby High2.8 mi · 998
Frequently asked questions
About Pleasant Valley ElementaryHow large is Pleasant Valley Elementary?
Pleasant Valley Elementary enrolls approximately 282 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Pleasant Valley Elementary serve?
Pleasant Valley Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Pleasant Valley Elementary have?
Pleasant Valley Elementary employs 20 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.1:1.
How diverse is Pleasant Valley Elementary?
Pleasant Valley Elementary reports a student body of 53% White, 32% Hispanic, 7% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Pleasant Valley Elementary in?
Pleasant Valley Elementary is part of Rockingham County Public Schools.
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