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VALLEY VIEW H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 39 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 10 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 31 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 34% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About VALLEY VIEW H S
VALLEY VIEW H S is one of the well-populated senior highs in HIDALGO, Texas, one of the schools within VALLEY VIEW ISD, with 1,227 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so VALLEY VIEW H S sits 54% above that benchmark.
Across the 9 schools in VALLEY VIEW ISD (4,295 students total), VALLEY VIEW H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, VALLEY VIEW H S shows that nearly all students (100%) are Hispanic.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 81 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 92% of students are eligible 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 VIEW H S is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 33.7%; this one delivers 52.6%, a residual of +19.0 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Hidalgo County) logs that median household income runs about $54,338, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. VALLEY VIEW H S is one of 364 public schools in Hidalgo County (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students).
The closest other public school is VALLEY VIEW J H, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, VALLEY VIEW H S comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 55.9%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 1,222 students in 2018 compared to 1,227 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.
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Hidalgo County at a glance
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