Pleasant Valley School
Groton School District
School day
School starts at 8:55 AM and it ends at 3:30 PM. Students go to school 181 days a year. State law requires 180 days, and the state average is about 181 days.
Students get 30 minutes for lunch. They have recess. The highest grade that gets recess is 5.
Who goes here?
Pleasant Valley School serves students from Grade K to 5.
A total of 294 students attended Pleasant Valley School in the 2013-14 school year. The breakdown by gender and race is below:
By Gender
Percentage by Race
Who teaches here?
The ratio of students versus certified staff is below, broken down by type of staff member.
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Student/Staff ratio
The total number of staff members is below.
Total Staff
The average age of general education teachers in 2012 was 46.6.
Average Age
The average experience of general education teachers in 2012 was 16.2 years.
Average Years of Experience
Administrators, Coordinators, Department Chairs are included in the breakdown below.
Number of Administrators, By Race
Number of General teachers, By Race
Administrators, Coordinators and Department Chairs, By Gender
General Teachers, By Gender
Average days absent per classroom teacher
Teacher salaries are broken down by subject type below. Note that averages for the state and similar schools compare teachers across all grade levels.
Teacher Salary
Hours spent on subjects
Second Grade
In the 2012-13 school year, students spent 469 hours in an English Language Arts class, 179 hours in a math class, 89 hours in a science class and 52 hours in a social studies class . Note: Averages for similar schools and statewide schools don't include schools that do not offer the given subject. For example, not all schools offer world languages so they are not included in the averages.
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Fifth Grade
In the 2012-13 school year, students spent 417 hours in an English Language Arts class, 0 hours in a World Language class, 179 hours in a math class, 89 hours in a science class and 104 hours in a social studies class . Note: Averages for similar schools and statewide schools don't include schools that do not offer the given subject. For example, not all schools offer world languages so they are not included in the averages.
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Below you can see the first grade in which a given non-ELL foreign language is offered. If blank, it was not offered in the 2012-13 school year.
First grade in which a non-ELL foreign language is offered in 2012-13
Language Grade
Spanish
French
Latin
German
Italian
Japanese
Chinese
Other Achievement
CMT and CAPT classification
Schools are classified in one of six categories, based on the progress of students in each school, as measured by test scores for the CMT and CAPT and high school graduation rates. The top classification is (1) Excelling, followed by (2) Progressing, (3) Transitioning, (4) Review, (5) Focus and (6) Turnaround. (More information here.)
This school was classified as Progressing for the 2012-13 school year.
Kindergartners
Among students entering kindergarten, 80.6 percent of them had preschool experience in 2012-13. The statewide average was 79.4 percent.

In 2011-12, 80.3 percent of them had preschool experience. The statewide average was 79.6 percent.
Class size
The average class sizes are split by grade below.
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Elementary school
Average class size, by grade
Attendance rate
Below are the average daily attendance, broken down by subgroups: gender, high-need students and race.
By Gender
High-needs student attendance is below. If the value is unavailable, then the school either a) does not have enough students in the category for the data to be released or b) does not have any students in that categorization.
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High-need students
This is the daily average attendance, by race. If the value is 0, then the school either a) does not have enough students in the category for the data to be released or b) does not have any students in that categorization.
By Race
Student Need
At this school, 42.2 percent of students were eligible for free or reduced lunch in the 2013-14 school year.
Students whose families make less than 130 percent of the poverty level are eligible for free meals. Those whose families make between 130 and 185 percent of the poverty level are eligible for reduced lunch. (Poverty level for 2014 can be seen here.)
At some schools, 100 percent of the students are eligible because of the "Community Eligibility Provision." If 40 percent of a school's students received free meals through a list of approved programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, all students at the school can receive free lunches and breakfasts without an application.
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Percentage of students eligible for free/reduced lunch
Number of students eligible for free/reduced lunch
Foreign language speakers
Students whose dominant language is not English. Note: The value of "5" indicates that five or fewer student speak the language.
Student total
Non-certified staff
In the 2011-12 school years, this school had 25.1 full-time equivalent non-certified staff.
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Total
Per 100 students
Discipline
The number of disciplinary incidents is broken down by the incidents and rate (per 1,000 students).
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Total incident
INCIDENTS PER 1,000 STUDENTS
Below is the incident breakdown for the 2012-13 school year:
Incidents by type
Media and technology
Schools must keep track of their media and technology resources and report them each year.
Resources
Category 2011-12 Similar Statewide 2012-13 Similar Statewide
Students per computer 2.7 3.5 3.0 1.5 3.2 2.9
Pct connected to internet 100% 98.8% 98.0% 100% 99.2% 98.4%
Pct connected to high-speed internet 100% 98.8% 98.0% 100% 99.2% 98.3%
Pct of rooms connected to local area network 100% 97.6% 98.7% 100% 99.9% 99.0%
Pct of rooms connected to internet 100% 98.1% 99.6% 100% 100.0% 99.8%
Wireless network in school? -- -- Y -- --
Library in school? Y -- -- Y -- --
Volumes per student 43 30.5 29.5 45 30.4 32.9
Periodical subscriptions 0 16.1 21.5 0 14.9 21.1
Computers in library media center 4 20.2 21.7 4 21.3 23.1
Nonprint materials in library 705 405.1 513.2 705 397.2 495.2
Fitness
The Connecticut Physical Fitness Assessment tests students on physical skills.
For 9-year-olds, the typical age of fourth graders when they start the year, the standard range is as follow:
For males: Sit-and-reach is 8 inches or above, for 90-degree push-ups it is 6 to 15, for curl-ups it is 9 to 24, and for the one-mile run, it is 9.5 to 12 minutes.
For females: Sit-and-reach is 9 inches or above, for 90-degree push-ups it is 6 to 15, for curl-ups it is 9 to 22, and for the one-mile run, it is 9.5 to 12.5 minutes.
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Percentage of Fourth Graders passing