NCES CCD 2024-25 13 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Pleasant Hill, CA

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13 public K-12 schools in Pleasant Hill from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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13
Schools
7,964
Students
29.3/100
Avg Resource Index
26:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Pleasant Hill has more public-school enrollment than 73% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Pleasant Hill's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

7 of Pleasant Hill's 13 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 3 middle and 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 47-point gap between Mdusd Preschools and Fair Oaks Elementary shows the range hidden by Pleasant Hill's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 27%
School count
Top 28%
Resource Index average
11th percentile
Teacher staffing
1st percentile

College Park High accounts for 24.5% of all Pleasant Hill public-school enrollment

That concentration means Pleasant Hill-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Pleasant Hill school enrollment varies 49× across entities

Pleasant Hill school enrollment ranges from 40 students (lowest) to 1,948 students (highest), a spread of 1,908 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Pleasant Hill operates one school district — a single-district system

Pleasant Hill's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Pleasant Hill student-teacher ratio is 26.0:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Mdusd Preschools 56
2. Prospect High (Continuation) 47
3. Horizons School: Independent Study 45
4. Sequoia Elementary 36
5. Strandwood Elementary 31
6. Pleasant Hill Elementary 27
7. Sequoia Middle 25
8. Valhalla Elementary 23
9. Gregory Gardens Elementary 23
10. College Park High 21
11. Valley View Middle 19
12. Pleasant Hill Middle 19
13. Fair Oaks Elementary 9

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Pleasant Hill

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Gregory Gardens Elementary 76.0/100
  2. 2 Valley View Middle 73.8/100
  3. 3 Sequoia Middle 73.5/100
  4. 4 Fair Oaks Elementary 72.0/100
  5. 5 College Park High 71.2/100

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Which Pleasant Hill school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Mdusd Preschools has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Pleasant Hill schools in this federal-data comparison at 56/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Pleasant Hill, CA? ▼

Pleasant Hill has 13 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,964 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 26:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.