Valley High School

Valley High School is one of the tight-knit secondary schools in Lucasville, Ohio, one of the schools within Valley Local, with 279 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 565 students each, so Valley High School sits 51% leaner than that benchmark.

Valley Local comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,023 students; Valley High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Valley High School logs that nearly all students (93%) are White. The remainder consists of 5% multiracial. Compared to Scioto County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Valley High School records 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. Roughly 44% of students at Valley High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Valley High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.2%, the actual is 63.6%, a residual of -8.5 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Scioto County) logs that median household income runs about $50,609, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Across Scioto County's 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,849 students), Valley High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Valley Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Valley High School. On composite proficiency, Valley High School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 64.3%.

Valley High School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 8%: 258 students in 2018 compared to 279 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for Valley High School typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.