Valley View Middle

Located at 3347 Tapo St., in Simi Valley, California, Valley View Middle is a high-enrollment middle school that educates 1,329 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Simi Valley Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 102% bigger than the state mean of about 659.

Simi Valley Unified comprises 27 schools with combined enrollment of 15,418 students; Valley View Middle is among them.

On demographics, Valley View Middle shows that the most-represented group is White (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 40% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 52% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Roughly 41% of students at Valley View Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Ventura County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Valley View Middle sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 55.0%; actual is 36.0%, a gap of -19.0 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Ventura County shows median household income runs about $109,797, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Valley View Middle is one of 238 public schools in Ventura County (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students).

The closest other public school is Township Elementary, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Valley View Middle comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 9%: 1,222 students in 2018 compared to 1,329 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 30% to 40% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 26.1:1 in 2018 to 24.7:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.