NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools IA

Best-Resourced Schools in Mount Pleasant, IA

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

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6
Schools
1,738
Students
48.3/100
Avg Resource Index
13:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Mount Pleasant has more public-school enrollment than 9% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Mount Pleasant's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Mount Pleasant's list includes 2 elementary, 1 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, plus 1 combined-grade record. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Mount Pleasant lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 26 to 545 students, a 21-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 91%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
82nd percentile
Teacher staffing
79th percentile

Mount Pleasant High School accounts for 31.4% of all Mount Pleasant public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Mount Pleasant-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

Mount Pleasant school enrollment varies 21× across entities

Mount Pleasant school enrollment ranges from 26 students (lowest) to 545 students (highest), a spread of 519 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. 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

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

Mount Pleasant'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

Mount Pleasant student-teacher ratio is 13.0:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Van Allen Elementary School 59
2. Harlan Elementary School 57
3. Wisdomquest Education Center 52
4. Lincoln Elementary School 51
5. Mount Pleasant Middle School 41
6. Mount Pleasant High School 30

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Mount Pleasant

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 Wisdomquest Education Center 57.1/100
  2. 2 Lincoln Elementary School 47.7/100
  3. 3 Mount Pleasant High School 41.6/100
  4. 4 Van Allen Elementary School 39.9/100
  5. 5 Mount Pleasant Middle School 35.8/100

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

Van Allen Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Mount Pleasant schools in this federal-data comparison at 59/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Mount Pleasant, IA? ▼

Mount Pleasant has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,738 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13:1.

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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.