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Valley View Elementary School
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Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 16 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 78% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Valley View Elementary School
Located at 6057 Farmersville Germantn Pik, in Germantown, Ohio, Valley View Elementary School is a large K-5 school that enrolls 814 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Valley View Local. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Valley View Elementary School sits 101% larger than that benchmark.
Valley View Elementary School is one of 4 schools operated by Valley View Local, a district that enrolls 2,199 students overall.
Looking at the student body, Valley View Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Beyond that, the school records 4% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 68% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Valley View Elementary School has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 35.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Valley View Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Montgomery County (around 42%), the school's rate is south of typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Valley View Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Ohio public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 78.2%; Valley View Elementary School posts 67.0%, -11.2 points below that line.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put the typical household earns roughly $66,139 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Montgomery County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,487 students), of which Valley View Elementary School is one.
The closest other public school is Valley View High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Valley View Elementary School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 65.4%.
The campus sits in a rural setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 63%: 498 students in 2018 compared to 814 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 35.4:1 today.
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Related schools
- Valley View Primary SchoolElementary · 532 students
- Valley View High SchoolHigh · 468 students
- Valley View Middle SchoolMiddle · 385 students
- Valley View Local SchoolsCombined
- Valley View PreSchoolElementary
- Valley View Primary SchoolElementary · 532 students
- Valley View High SchoolHigh · 468 students
- Valley View Middle SchoolMiddle · 385 students
- Valley View Local SchoolsCombined
- Valley View PreSchoolElementary
- Valley View High School0.0 mi · 468
- Valley View Middle School0.0 mi · 385
- Valley View Primary School2.1 mi · 532
- Bear Primary School5.3 mi · 170
- Jefferson Jr./Sr. High School6.0 mi · 128
- Dixie High School6.1 mi · 311