West Valley Middle School

Located in Kalispell, Montana, West Valley Middle School is a large middle school. The school enrolls 372 students in grades 5 through 8. On average, middle schools in Montana enroll around 139, and this school is 168% above that mark.

West Valley Elem counts 2 schools and 806 students, including West Valley Middle School.

West Valley Middle School is 87% White by enrollment. The remaining shares are 6% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, West Valley Middle School scores 24%.

The school has 19.6 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 19.0 students per teacher. Middle schools in Montana have an average ratio of 11.3:1. The school reported 29% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. Public schools in Flathead County average 75%.

Flathead County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $73,925, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. There are 48 public schools in the county, enrolling about 14,957, West Valley Middle School among them.

A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, West Valley School, is the closest to West Valley Middle School. The count of other public schools within five miles is 5.

Federal data place West Valley Middle School in the Rural: Distant locale, which means it is in rural territory some distance from an urban area.

The school's enrollment figures are 237 for 2020-21 and 372 for 2024-25. Differences this large can reflect a change in grade levels, a boundary change, or a merger. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 16.9:1 to 19.0:1.

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