VALLEY VIEW INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

As a roomy primary school in JONESBORO, Arkansas, VALLEY VIEW INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL instructs 933 students from grades 3 through 6, operated by VALLEY VIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 123% above the state mean of about 418.

VALLEY VIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,975 students; VALLEY VIEW INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, VALLEY VIEW INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL shows that 80% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school reports 5% Black, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic.

On the resource side, VALLEY VIEW INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL records 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 32% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Craighead County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, VALLEY VIEW INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.9%, the actual is 50.6%, a residual of +3.7 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Craighead County indicate median household income runs about $59,548, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Craighead County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,332 students), VALLEY VIEW INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

VALLEY VIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around VALLEY VIEW INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts VALLEY VIEW INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 28.2%.

VALLEY VIEW INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 5%: 890 students in 2018 compared to 933 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 89% to 80% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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