Valley Elementary

Located at 3519 Jefferson Pike, in Jefferson, Maryland, Valley Elementary is a moderately sized elementary campus that instructs 525 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Frederick County Public Schools.

Frederick County Public Schools runs 67 schools in total, collectively educating 48,054 students. Valley Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Valley Elementary reports that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 18% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Black, 3% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Frederick County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Valley Elementary lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 31% of students at Valley Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Valley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.0%, the actual is 54.5%, a residual of -1.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Frederick County reports that the typical household earns roughly $122,002 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Valley Elementary is one of 69 public schools in Frederick County (combined enrollment of about 48,054 students).

Brunswick Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Valley Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Valley Elementary at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 51.8%.

Valley Elementary operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Valley Elementary's enrollment has edged up 31% since 2018, when it stood at 400 (now 525). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 76% to 68%.

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