Valley View Elementary School

Located at 1508 E 3rd, in Ellensburg, Washington, Valley View Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus that teaches 408 students (grades K through 5), run under Ellensburg School District.

Across the 9 schools in Ellensburg School District (3,408 students total), Valley View Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Valley View Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 15% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Valley View Elementary School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Roughly 37% of students at Valley View Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Kittitas County (around 46%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Valley View Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.2%; this one delivers 59.5%.

In the broader community, Kittitas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,804 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Valley View Elementary School is one of 21 public schools in Kittitas County (combined enrollment of about 5,387 students).

Ellensburg Choice Schools is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Valley View Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Valley View Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 43.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 27%: 558 students in 2018 compared to 408 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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