VALLEY VIEW MIDDLE
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 20 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 59% 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 MIDDLE
VALLEY VIEW MIDDLE operates as a rural-scale 6-8 campus in VALLEY VIEW, Texas, overseen by VALLEY VIEW ISD. Current enrollment sits at 234 students spanning grades 5 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 64% below typical.
VALLEY VIEW MIDDLE is one of 9 schools operated by VALLEY VIEW ISD, a district that hosts 4,295 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, VALLEY VIEW MIDDLE records that the largest single group is White, at 59% of enrollment. Other groups include 35% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, The school reports having 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting VALLEY VIEW MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. About 35% 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 below Cooke County's rate of about 48%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), VALLEY VIEW MIDDLE falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 58.6%; this one comes in at 24.7%, -33.8 points off the demographic line.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cooke County) shows that median household earnings sit near $73,932, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cooke County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,986 students), VALLEY VIEW MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.
VALLEY VIEW H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts VALLEY VIEW MIDDLE at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 50.3%.
The school occupies a rural site.
Looking at the recent track record. VALLEY VIEW MIDDLE's enrollment has edged down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 262 (now 234). White enrollment moved from 70% to 59% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.
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