Valley View Elementary School

Valley View Elementary School operates as a moderately sized elementary campus in ROCKFORD, Michigan, operated by Rockford Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 336 students spanning grades K through 5.

Rockford Public Schools runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 7,440 students. Valley View Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Valley View Elementary School shows that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 3% Asian. By comparison, Kent County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.7:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 15% of students at Valley View Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kent County (around 47%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Valley View Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 59.4%; Valley View Elementary School posts 75.1%, +15.7 points above that line.

Around the school, census data for Kent County shows the typical household earns roughly $82,631 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Valley View Elementary School is one of 239 public schools in Kent County (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students).

Nearest neighbor: River Valley Academy, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Valley View Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 66.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Valley View Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 47% since 2018, when it stood at 631 (now 336). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

On allk12, the feed for Valley View Elementary School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.