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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL this year?
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Enrollment
675
High
DISTRICT 744 · STATE 510
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VALLEY VIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051338001095
VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL
2116 YARBROUGH DRIVE, JONESBORO, AR 72404 · (870) 932-3737 · Craighead County
GRADES 09–12HIGH41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL675 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 48% of Arkansas public high schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Arkansas public high schools
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 8.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
159 students
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 70%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 1 | 0% |
| Grade 10 | 221 | 33% |
| Grade 11 | 246 | 36% |
| Grade 12 | 207 | 31% |
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 33% · STATE 61% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
48.6%
AR avg 34.9% . +13.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level. The Arkansas average is about 35 of 100. Reading and writing scores are up about 14 points since 2023.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts |
|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.6% |
| 2023-24 | 35.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3+4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: ATLAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of AR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
35.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.1%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 51% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL
VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (35.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL this school | 675 | 23.6% | 35.6% |
| GREENWOOD HIGH SCHOOL GREENWOOD | 1,161 | 21.9% | 47.1% |
| MAUMELLE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL NORTH LITTLE | 508 | 20.7% | 42.7% |
| BROOKLAND HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLAND | 645 | 25.3% | 19.9% |
| FARMINGTON HIGH SCHOOL FARMINGTON | 690 | 27.7% | 29.0% |
| PEA RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL PEA RIDGE | 597 | 28.0% | 27.3% |
Matched among Arkansas high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Craighead County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.6% | #73 of 272 | #1 of 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.6% | #20 of 280 ▲ 64 | #1 of 8 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 675 | #63 of 310 | #3 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #219 of 245 | #6 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.9% | #147 of 246 | #4 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.6% | #261 of 273 | #8 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +18.0% | #33 of 105 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
675
+39 (+6%) vs 2020
+137% since 1990-91, when it was 285
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 15.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 675 | 49.9 | 13.5:1 | 24% (159) |
| 2023-24 | 673 | 46.2 | 14.6:1 | 20% (133) |
| 2022-23 | 631 | 44 | 14.3:1 | 22% (137) |
| 2020-21 | 636 | 40 | 15.9:1 | 25% (156) |
| 2017-18 | 572 | 47.3 | 12.1:1 | 11% (65) |
| 2015-16 | 593 | 46 | 12.9:1 | 22% (132) |
| 2010-11 | 1,046 | 70 | 14.9:1 | 21% (224) |
| 2000-01 | 279 | 38 | 7.3:1 | 14% (39) |
| 1990-91 | 285 | 15 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL.
About VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL
VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL is a mid-sized high school serving families in JONESBORO, Arkansas. The school enrolls 675 students in grades 9 through 12. That compares with an average of about 510 students for high schools in Arkansas.
VALLEY VIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT enrolls 2,975 students, and its 4 schools include VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL.
A large majority of enrollment at VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL is White, at 83%. It is also 6% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Craighead County's residents are about 72% White, 11 points below the school's share. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 31%.
VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL lists 49.9 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 13.5 students per teacher. The gap from the 8.8:1 average for high schools in Arkansas is 4.7 students per teacher. About 24% of students at VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 43 points below the 67% average for public schools in Craighead County.
VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 48% of Arkansas public high schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL posts 35.6% against a 51.1% prediction, a bottom-10% result in Arkansas.
The school is in Craighead County, where the median household earns about $59,548 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 30% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL shares Craighead County with 36 other public schools.
VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.2 miles from VALLEY VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. In a group of 7 nearby schools with scores, VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Rural: Fringe: the school is in rural territory close to an urban area.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased 6%. The number of students per teacher dropped from 15.9 to 13.5 over 4 years.
VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL has a community page on allk12 for topics such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Craighead County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
113,249
Census ACS
Median income
$59,548
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
20,332 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in VALLEY VIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT
- VALLEY VIEW INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 933 students
- VALLEY VIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 699 students
- VALLEY VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 668 students
Other schools in JONESBORO
- THE ACADEMIES AT JONESBORO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,505 students
- NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,054 students
- VALLEY VIEW INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 933 students
- DOUGLAS MACARTHUR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 765 students
- WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 756 students
- VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNETElementary · 731 students
Other Valley View High schools
5 other US public schools in 5 states are named Valley View High. VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL is the 4th largest of the 6.
- Valley View HighMoreno Valley, CA · 2,699 students
- Valley View High SchoolHIDALGO, TX · 1,227 students
- Valley View High SchoolArchbald, PA · 747 students
- Valley View High SchoolGermantown, OH · 468 students
- Valley View High SchoolVALLEY VIEW, TX · 257 students
Nearby schools
- VALLEY VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 668
- VALLEY VIEW INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 933
- VALLEY VIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 699
- FOX MEADOW ELEMENTARY3.7 mi · 394
- FOX MEADOW SCHOOL OF CREATIVE MEDIA3.8 mi · 440
- HEALTH WELLNESS & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES MAGNET3.9 mi · 633
Frequently asked questions
About VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOLHow large is VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL?
VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 675 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL serve?
VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 13.5:1 (50 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL?
At VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 83% White, 6% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by VALLEY VIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.