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Enrollment
493
Elementary
DISTRICT 484 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PETERSBURG CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510291001196
Pleasants Lane Elementary
100 Pleasants Lane, Petersburg, VA 23803 · (804) 862-7013 · Petersburg city
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL493 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 0% of Virginia public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
12.6:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
459 students
DISTRICT 93% · STATE 66%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 90 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 89 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (74).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 32% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Petersburg City Public Schools. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
35.0%
VA avg 74.2% . +3.0pp since 2022
Math
35.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +7.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 7 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.0% | 35.0% |
| 2023-24 | 36.0% | 24.0% |
| 2022-23 | 32.0% | 28.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of VA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
22.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.8%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-40.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 63% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Pleasants Lane Elementary
Pleasants Lane Elementary's state test result (22.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasants Lane Elementary this school | 493 | 93.1% | 22.0% |
| Edwin A. Gibson Elementary Danville | 466 | 94.8% | 28.5% |
| Southampton Elementary Richmond | 473 | 98.3% | 42.3% |
| Blackwell Elementary Richmond | 420 | 98.8% | 34.6% |
| Jacob L. Adams Elementary Richmond | 453 | 89.0% | 53.2% |
| Arthur Ashe Jr. Elementary Richmond | 425 | 89.2% | 63.0% |
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 Pleasants Lane Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.0% | #1,100 of 1,101 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #1,101 of 1,111 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #1,105 of 1,111 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 493 | #602 of 1,176 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #277 of 1,105 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.1% | #933 of 1,106 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.1% | #280 of 1,157 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.4% | #512 of 759 |
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
493
-19 (-4%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 628
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 13.1:1
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 | 493 | 39 | 12.6:1 | 93% (459) |
| 2023-24 | 515 | 38 | 13.6:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 540 | 39 | 13.8:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 512 | 39 | 13.1:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 538 | 38 | 14.2:1 | 99% (535) |
| 2015-16 | 534 | 33 | 16.2:1 | 94% (501) |
| 2010-11 | 443 | 29 | 15.3:1 | 84% (374) |
| 2000-01 | 516 | 38 | 13.6:1 | 77% (395) |
| 1990-91 | 628 | 33 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pleasants Lane Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (538 to 493); teachers up 3% (38 to 39).
About Pleasants Lane Elementary
Pleasants Lane Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Virginia, located in Petersburg. It enrolled 493 students in kindergarten through 5 for the 2024-25 school year.
Petersburg City Public Schools has a total of 7 schools and 4,582 students, Pleasants Lane Elementary among them.
Black students make up a majority at Pleasants Lane Elementary, at 77%. The next largest groups are 17% Hispanic, 3% White, and 2% multiracial. The Black share in Petersburg city as a whole is similar, at about 77%. The school's diversity index is 37%, meaning two students picked at random have a 37% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school reports 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 12.6 students per teacher. That is 1.2 students per teacher below the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 93% of students. That tracks the 92% average for public schools in Petersburg city.
Measured against Virginia public elementary schools, Pleasants Lane Elementary receives an F. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Schools in Virginia with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate on state tests near 62.8%. Pleasants Lane Elementary posts 22.0%, 40.8 points below that, which places it in the bottom 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
In Petersburg city (population about 33,537), the median household income is $50,698, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 25%, and roughly 20% of residents are in poverty. Pleasants Lane Elementary is one of 9 public schools in the county.
The shortest distance from Pleasants Lane Elementary to another public school is about 0.6 miles, to Westview Early Childhood Education Center. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, Pleasants Lane Elementary ranks 8th on proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes Pleasants Lane Elementary as Suburb: Large.
2024-25 enrollment was 493, a 4% decrease from 512 in 2020-21.
Parents and students can post about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater at Pleasants Lane Elementary. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Petersburg city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
33,537
Census ACS
Median income
$50,698
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
20%
Below federal line
Schools in county
9
4,582 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Petersburg City Public Schools
- Petersburg HighHigh · 1,215 students
- Vernon Johns MiddleMiddle · 949 students
- Walnut Hill ElementaryElementary · 574 students
- Cool Spring ElementaryElementary · 540 students
- Westview Early Childhood Education CenterElementary · 418 students
- Lakemont ElementaryElementary · 393 students
Other schools in Petersburg
- Petersburg HighHigh · 1,215 students
- Vernon Johns MiddleMiddle · 949 students
- Walnut Hill ElementaryElementary · 574 students
- Cool Spring ElementaryElementary · 540 students
- Westview Early Childhood Education CenterElementary · 418 students
- Lakemont ElementaryElementary · 393 students
Nearby schools
- Westview Early Childhood Education Center0.6 mi · 418
- Cool Spring Elementary1.0 mi · 540
- Ettrick Elementary1.7 mi · 560
- Petersburg High2.5 mi · 1,215
- Walnut Hill Elementary2.6 mi · 574
- Vernon Johns Middle2.7 mi · 949
Frequently asked questions
About Pleasants Lane ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Pleasants Lane Elementary?
Pleasants Lane Elementary enrolls approximately 493 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Pleasants Lane Elementary serve?
Pleasants Lane Elementary serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Pleasants Lane Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Pleasants Lane Elementary is approximately 12.6:1 (39 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Pleasants Lane Elementary?
Pleasants Lane Elementary reports a student body of 3% White, 17% Hispanic, 77% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Pleasants Lane Elementary public or private?
Pleasants Lane Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Petersburg City Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.