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Valley View School
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 57% typical for Utah 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 16 points, placing it in Utah's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Valley View School
Valley View School, a mid-sized elementary school in BOUNTIFUL, Utah, operated by Davis District, instructs 426 students, covering grades pre-K through 6.
Davis District comprises 95 schools with combined enrollment of 71,703 students; Valley View School is among them.
On the student-mix side, Valley View School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). The remainder reads as 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at school resources, Valley View School lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.8:1 average. Around 7% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Davis County runs at roughly 19%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Valley View School 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 56.6%; this one delivers 73.0%, a residual of +16.4 points.
Around the school, Davis County reports that median household income runs about $110,884, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Davis County's 118 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,110 students), Valley View School is one campus in the mix.
Mueller Park Jr High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Valley View School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Valley View School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 51.9%.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
Looking at the recent track record. Valley View School's enrollment has decreased 13% since 2018, when it stood at 490 (now 426). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 92% to 84%.
Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Valley View School typically covers classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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