Summary:
ZIP code 43148 covers Pleasantville, Ohio, and contains exactly one public school: Pleasantville Elementary School, an elementary serving grades K–4 with 348 students as part of the Fairfield Union Local district. Because it is the only school in the ZIP — there is no local middle, high, or alternative school — families transition elsewhere after 4th grade, and every meaningful comparison has to be made against the district or the state rather than a nearby peer school.
Academics here are split sharply by grade. Third grade is the bright spot: in 2025–2026, 72.9% of 3rd graders were proficient in math, 10.8 points above the state, and 69.4% were proficient in English language arts (ELA), 6.0 points above the state. Both improved over the prior year. Fourth grade tells a different story. Math is still strong at 73.8%, 6.5 points above the state, but 4th-grade ELA is the clear weak point: 50.8% proficient, 11.0 points below the state, 13.4 points below the district, and down 15.0 points from the year before. Overall, three of four tested subject-and-grade cells beat the state, and the school's average proficiency (66.7%) stays above the state average (63.7%), though it slipped behind the district's 69.9%.
Beyond test scores, chronic absenteeism is 12.5%, better than the district's 15.1%, and the student–teacher ratio is 19.8 to 1. One caution: the school's statewide percentile rank has fallen for three straight years, from the 67th to the 52nd percentile, while its star rating has held steady at 3 stars. Some context is missing — free/reduced lunch data is not reported, and the only spending figure available is from 2018–2019 ($8,345). The bottom line for parents: expect a solid math program and improving 3rd-grade reading, with 4th-grade reading the area most in need of attention.
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