Valley Middle School

Valley Middle School operates as a cozy middle school in Lucasville, Ohio, one of the schools within Valley Local. Current enrollment sits at 302 students spanning grades 5 through 8. That puts it 37% leaner than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 482 students.

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

On the student-mix side, Valley Middle School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). Other groups include 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Valley Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.7%, the actual is 68.0%, a residual of -4.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Scioto County shows the typical household earns roughly $50,609 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Scioto County's 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,849 students), Valley Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Valley High School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Valley Middle School. On composite proficiency, Valley Middle School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 63.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 301 students in 2018 compared to 302 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.1:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.

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