Summary:
Pleasant Valley School District 62 has one middle school in this list: Pleasant Valley Intermediate School, which serves grades 4–8 and enrolls 166 students. With no other school in the district list, there is no meaningful school-to-school comparison. In 2025–2026, the school’s all-grades ELA proficiency was 51%, compared with 56% statewide, while math proficiency was 26%, compared with 40% statewide. The most important finding is that math is the larger school-wide concern: its result was 14 points below the state, versus 5 points below in ELA.
Pleasant Valley Intermediate School is the only school—and therefore the group’s sole top and bottom performer by default, not a winner or laggard among local peers. Its strongest result was eighth-grade ELA: 86% proficient, 23 points above the state’s 63%; eighth-grade math was also above the state, at 41% versus 35%, a 7-point lead. Results were weaker in the grades and subjects where the state comparisons were available: ELA in grades 4–7 was 8–16 points below state levels, and fifth-grade science was 13 points below (35% versus 48%). The school’s all-grades ELA was 2 points above its district’s 50%, but its math was 2 points below the district’s 28%.
All-grades ELA and math improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and both gaps with the state narrowed: ELA rose 9 points at the school versus 3 statewide, while math rose 4 versus 1. Science improvement differed by grade: eighth-grade results rose 28 points, narrowing the state gap from 25 points to 4, while fifth-grade results rose 6.6 points versus 6.9 statewide, so that gap did not close. SchoolDigger ranked the school 567th of 1,126, at percentile 50 with 2 stars, in 2025–2026; it ranked 936th of 1,368, percentile 32 with 2 stars, the prior year. The student–teacher ratio was 9.2 in 2024–2025, when all students received free meals through Community Eligibility (CEP). Chronic absenteeism was 26% in 2025–2026, 3 points below the district and 3 above the state.
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