Pleasant Home School, Andalusia AL

Original Research by School Decision on Pleasant Home School

Pleasant Home School is a single-campus, pre-kindergarten through twelfth-grade regular public school serving a rural stretch of Covington County, Alabama, near Andalusia. It is part of the Covington County district, which oversees three schools total in the county. A school that covers all thirteen grades under one roof is uncommon, and that structure shapes the experience here: students move up within the same building over many years, and families interact with a single administration rather than separate elementary, middle, and high school offices.

Academically, the school presents a mixed picture that families will want to weigh carefully. On state assessments from the 2024-25 school year, students in English language arts posted the stronger results across grades tested. The overall proficiency rate across elementary and middle school grades was solid, with several individual grades reaching well past the halfway mark. Math achievement was substantially lower, with the schoolwide average falling below a third of students proficient. Performance varied sharply by grade: fourth graders showed a relatively strong result, but fifth graders recorded a notably weak one. Science results, available for grades four and eight, showed a similar pattern of unevenness, with the fourth-grade cohort performing much better than the eighth. Compared to the other districts in Covington County, Pleasant Home’s overall proficiency index lands below the midpoint, meaning that two of the three county districts posted higher combined scores. The school has only a single year of assessment data available in this record, so no trend line is yet visible.

Because test scores cover only grades three through eight, high school outcomes such as graduation rate and college readiness measures were not included in the information provided. A parent considering the upper grades might want to ask the school directly about its four-year completion rate, advanced coursework options, and postsecondary pathways.

The student body is small by the standards of a combined PK-12 school, with enrollment in the low hundreds. The racial composition is overwhelmingly white, with black and Hispanic students making up a modest share each. Roughly three-fifths of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, a rate that reflects the area’s economic base. Data on students with disabilities and English learners was not available, so it is unclear what level of specialized support the school provides. The school is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet, and it offers no special admissions process.

The surrounding community shapes the context. Andalusia is the county seat and a regional center for timber, manufacturing, and poultry processing. Major employers such as Shaw Industries and Wayne Farms have invested in expansions, but the town’s population has been declining slightly in recent years, and no large-scale residential development was reported. Housing values in the area are markedly lower than both the Alabama and national averages, making homeownership more accessible here than in many parts of the country. The feel of the town is auto-oriented, with a traditional courthouse square downtown and schools set on separate campuses. Because Pleasant Home is located on Falco Road outside the city proper, it serves a more rural catchment than the Andalusia city schools, which operate their own separate district.

This school fits a family looking for a small, combined K-12 environment in a rural setting where students progress through the grades in a familiar community. The housing market is affordable, and the local economy offers industrial employment. Academically, the school’s strengths lie in elementary reading while math achievement is an area of concern, and a prospective parent would do well to probe how the school supports struggling learners and what curricular options exist at the high school level, since those details were not available in the public record.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=80%Cohort of 28 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

373 schools plotted. 7 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 339%

School 39% · District 50% · ▼ 11 pts below district

▼ 4 pts below state median

Grade 462%

School 62% · District 45% · ▲ 17 pts above district

▲ 24 pts above state median

Grade 511%

School 11% · District 26% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 22 pts below state median

Grade 633%

School 33% · District 45% · ▼ 11 pts below district

▲ 4 pts above state median

Grade 732%

School 32% · District 30% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 15 pts above state median

Grade 821%

School 21% · District 37% · ▼ 16 pts below district

▲ 6 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 372%

School 72% · District 76% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▲ 7 pts above state median

Grade 481%

School 81% · District 67% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▲ 23 pts above state median

Grade 558%

School 58% · District 69% · ▼ 11 pts below district

▼ 9 pts below state median

Grade 661%

School 61% · District 65% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▲ 6 pts above state median

Grade 771%

School 71% · District 66% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 17 pts above state median

Grade 860%

School 60% · District 62% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▲ 8 pts above state median

Science

Grade 471%

School 71% · District 56% · ▲ 16 pts above district

▲ 33 pts above state median

Grade 840%

School 40% · District 56% · ▼ 17 pts below district

▲ 5 pts above state median

This schoolCovington County, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.