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Pleasant Gap, MO schools

Pleasant Gap’s public schools score below Missouri’s averages: 41% of students are proficient in reading against 45.3% statewide, and 95% of high schoolers graduate on time against 90.6%. Kids attend Butler Elem. or Rich Hill Elem. or Hudson Elem. through grade 8, then Butler High or Rich Hill High or Hudson Elem. and Butler High or Rich Hill High.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

B-School Grade

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Pleasant Gap’s School Grade: B-

The public schools Pleasant Gap’s kids attend outperform 50% of Missouri’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.

B-Test scores

Missouri school districts we grade (538)Better than 50%

Lower resultsHigher results

Missouri towns with similar household incomes (405)Better than 35%

Towns in Bates County (23)Better than 43%

High confidence. Built on 676 tested students; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.

How the School Grade works

Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Missouri’s state tests, each against the state average. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each.
Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Missouri only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Missouri with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why 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.