Valley Elementary School

Set in Lucasville, Ohio, Valley Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary campus, one of the schools within Valley Local. It hosts 442 students across grades pre-K through 4.

Valley Local runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,023 students. Valley Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Valley Elementary School reports that nearly all students (92%) are White. Other groups include 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Valley Elementary School shows 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Valley Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Scioto County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Valley Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.0%, the actual is 74.2%, a residual of +6.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Scioto County) records that median household earnings sit near $50,609, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Valley Elementary School is one of 32 public schools in Scioto County (combined enrollment of about 10,849 students).

Valley High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Valley Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 62.2%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 5%: 463 students in 2018 compared to 442 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 96% to 92%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 25.7:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 today.

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