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Valor Middle School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Valor Middle School
Valor Middle School operates as an average-sized intermediate school in Woodburn, Oregon, operated by Woodburn SD 103. Current enrollment sits at 591 students spanning grades 6 through 8.
Woodburn SD 103 runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 5,220 students. Valor Middle School is one of those campuses.
On demographics, Valor Middle School lists that nearly all students (89%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 9% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.
On the resource side, Valor Middle School logs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. The state averages around 19.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 73% of students at Valor Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Marion County (around 83%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
With demographic context factored in, Valor Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Oregon public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 34.1%; Valor Middle School posts 11.2%, -22.9 points below that line.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Marion County put the typical household earns roughly $77,351 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Valor Middle School is one of 111 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 53,799 students).
Heritage Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Valor Middle School at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 14.4%.
The school occupies a town-center site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Valor Middle School has declined 12%, going from 671 students in 2018 to 591 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 20% to 9% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.
Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Valor Middle School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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