VALLEY VIEW EL
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 8 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 55% typical for Texas 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.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About VALLEY VIEW EL
VALLEY VIEW EL is a primary school of modestly sized scale in VALLEY VIEW, Texas, part of VALLEY VIEW ISD, hosting 360 students in grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 31% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
VALLEY VIEW ISD comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 4,295 students; VALLEY VIEW EL is among them.
On demographics, VALLEY VIEW EL reports that 60% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 35% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Cooke County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, On paper, VALLEY VIEW EL has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 44% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, VALLEY VIEW EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 54.6%; actual is 35.0%, a gap of -19.6 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Cooke County indicate median household earnings sit near $73,932, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cooke County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,986 students), of which VALLEY VIEW EL is one.
VALLEY VIEW H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), VALLEY VIEW EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 48.8%.
The campus sits in a countryside setting.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 8%: 332 students in 2018 compared to 360 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 71% to 60% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.
Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Cooke County at a glance
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