Public school / Primary
Pleasant Hill Elementary School
Des Moines, Iowa
- NCES ID
- 190897000572
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Pleasant Hill Elementary School is a public primary school in Des Moines, Iowa, run by Des Moines Independent Comm School District. It enrols 213 students — the 76543rd largest of 1,337 public schools in Iowa.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
213
Teachers
19.0
Students per teacher
11.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
68.5%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Des Moines Independent Comm School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Lincoln High School2,403 students
- 2East High School2,040 students
- 3Roosevelt High School1,986 students
- 4North High School1,458 students
- 5Hoover High School991 students
- 6Weeks Middle School684 students
- 7Virtual Campus668 students
- 8Meredith Middle School664 students
- Enrollment−40.5%
- Teachers−17.4%
- Students per teacher−21.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+73.4%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory