Pleasant Prairie Elementary

Pleasant Prairie Elementary is an elementary-level community of big scale in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, overseen by Kenosha School District, hosting 542 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 68% above the state mean of about 323.

Pleasant Prairie Elementary is one of 41 schools operated by Kenosha School District, a district that hosts 20,297 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Pleasant Prairie Elementary lists that the most-represented group is White (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 23% Hispanic, 10% Black, 6% multiracial, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. The state averages about 14.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kenosha County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Pleasant Prairie Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.8%, the actual is 60.5%, a residual of +4.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Kenosha County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $81,239 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kenosha County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,114 students), Pleasant Prairie Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Nash Elementary, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Pleasant Prairie Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 51.5%.

Pleasant Prairie Elementary operates from a suburban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 13%: 625 students in 2018 compared to 542 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 65% to 55%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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