Valley View Elementary

Located at 3310 West Ave. L-8, in Lancaster, California, Valley View Elementary is a mid-sized primary school that hosts 659 students (grades K through 6), run under Westside Union Elementary. That puts it 42% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Westside Union Elementary comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 9,078 students; Valley View Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Valley View Elementary records that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 20% White, 11% Black, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Valley View Elementary records 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Valley View Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.4%, the actual is 29.4%, a residual of -11.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) shows that median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Valley View Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nancy Cory Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Valley View Elementary at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 32.8%.

Valley View Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 18%: 801 students in 2018 compared to 659 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 36% to 20% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 27.6:1 in 2018 to 25.4:1 today.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.