Valley View Elementary School

Valley View Elementary School is one of the cozy primary schools in Wadsworth, Ohio, overseen by Wadsworth City, with 319 students on its rolls from grades K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 404 students per school, that is 21% below typical.

Across the 10 schools in Wadsworth City (4,275 students total), Valley View Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Valley View Elementary School shows that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Valley View Elementary School logs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Valley View Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Medina County's rate of about 26%.

After controlling for student poverty, Valley View Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.0%, the actual is 79.9%, a residual of +3.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Medina County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $94,968 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Medina County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,243 students), of which Valley View Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lincoln Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Valley View Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 78.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 7%: 342 students in 2018 compared to 319 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 94% to 87% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 23.4:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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