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Schools in Pleasant Plains · Midland School District

Pleasant Plains’s public schools score below 78% of Arkansas districts

The public schools Pleasant Plains’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 78% of Arkansas’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.

14%beats similar-income towns
Reading proficiency
28%
▼ 9 pts vs AR 37%
2020–21
Math proficiency
19%
▼ 17 pts vs AR 36%
2020–21
Graduate on time
84%
▼ 5 pts vs AR 89%
class of 2020
Spent per student
$17.5K
▲ 29% vs AR $13.6K
FY2024
Students per teacher
4.8
AR 12.5 · smaller classes
Schools
1
222 students
The School Grade

How Pleasant Plains compares

C− Test scoresC− Graduation
Arkansas school districts we grade (258)Better than 22%
Lower resultsHigher results
Arkansas towns with similar household incomes (247)Better than 14%
Good confidence. Built on 283 tested students and a graduating class of 48; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change it.
How the School Grade works
  • Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Arkansas’s state tests against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown but don’t count. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
  • The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids through every district that serves it, weighted by students tested. Tests count 60%, graduation 40%.
  • Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are compared with the rest of Arkansas only. A+ is the top 5%, A the next 10%, A− the next 10%, the B range the next 30%, the C range the next 30%, D the rest.
  • What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income, so we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.

Where will my kid go?

Pick a grade. These are the public schools that serve Pleasant Plains.

The path, start to finish
PK–6Midland Elementary Schoolin Floral

The district

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Test scores · 2020–21

Well below the state in reading

Reading28%
State average 36.8%
Math19%
State average 36.2%

Every school in Pleasant Plains

1 school. Grades are ours, from state tests and graduation. Stars are from neighbors.

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What Pleasant Plains families are saying about school.

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Colleges near Pleasant Plains

There’s no college in Pleasant Plains, but 4 are within 30 miles. The closest is Lyon College in Batesville, 15.4 miles away.

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Straight-line distance from the center of Pleasant Plains. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus · College Scorecard · IPEDS.

School data: U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts, F-33 school finance). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within Arkansas. Stars are from neighbors.

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