VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL

VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL is a senior high of reasonably sized scale in JONESBORO, Arkansas, one of the schools within VALLEY VIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructing 675 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 510 students each, so VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL sits 32% larger than that benchmark.

VALLEY VIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,975 students. VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). Beyond that, the school shows 6% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 72%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 8.8:1, putting VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 24% of students at VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Craighead County (around 67%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Arkansas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 50.0%; VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL posts 30.4%, -19.5 points below that line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Craighead County put the typical household earns roughly $59,548 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Craighead County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,332 students), of which VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL is one.

VALLEY VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), VALLEY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 31.5%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 18%: 572 students in 2018 compared to 675 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 88% to 83% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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