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Enrollment
641
Middle
DISTRICT 688 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SNOHOMISH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530802001790
Valley View Middle School
14308 Broadway Avenue SE, Snohomish, WA 98296 · (360) 563-4225 · Snohomish County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL641 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 77% of Washington public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public middle schools
Student : Teacher
22.3:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.9:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
136 students
DISTRICT 28% · STATE 51%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 309 | 48% |
| Grade 8 | 332 | 52% |
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 68% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
69.0%
WA avg 58.4% . +15.3pp since 2014
Math
55.9%
WA avg 51.2% . +8.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 15 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 8 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.0% | 55.9% |
| 2023-24 | 66.7% | 59.0% |
| 2022-23 | 62.2% | 56.9% |
| 2021-22 | 63.1% | 49.6% |
| 2018-19 | 72.5% | 62.7% |
| 2017-18 | 67.1% | 61.0% |
| 2016-17 | 64.0% | 58.0% |
| 2015-16 | 62.1% | 59.8% |
| 2014-15 | 53.8% | 47.7% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
61.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.0%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Washington's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Valley View Middle School
Valley View Middle School's state test result (61.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valley View Middle School this school | 641 | 21.2% | 61.3% |
| Northshore Middle School Bothell | 753 | 21.8% | 61.6% |
| Finn Hill Middle School Kirkland | 664 | 23.3% | 51.0% |
| North Tapps Middle School Lake Tapps | 523 | 22.0% | 65.4% |
| Washington Middle School OLYMPIA | 702 | 21.7% | 60.2% |
| Skyridge Middle School Camas | 760 | 16.4% | N/A |
Matched among Washington middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Valley View Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Snohomish County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.3% | #43 of 294 | #5 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.9% | #56 of 357 ▼ 13 | #6 of 32 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #44 of 357 ▲ 4 | #4 of 32 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.1pp | #63 of 290 | #12 of 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 641 | #173 of 377 | #23 of 33 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.3:1 | #318 of 340 | #27 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.1% | #169 of 340 | #24 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.2% | #321 of 359 | #29 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.9% | #84 of 192 | #7 of 13 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
641
-43 (-6%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 699
Student : Teacher
22.3:1
was 21.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 641 | 28.8 | 22.3:1 | 21% (136) |
| 2023-24 | 625 | 28 | 22.3:1 | 19% (119) |
| 2022-23 | 637 | 28.5 | 22.4:1 | 18% (116) |
| 2020-21 | 684 | 32 | 21.4:1 | 15% (101) |
| 2017-18 | 736 | 33 | 22.3:1 | 15% (110) |
| 2015-16 | 794 | 32 | 24.8:1 | 14% (109) |
| 2010-11 | 675 | 28 | 24.1:1 | 12% (84) |
| 2000-01 | 669 | 28 | 23.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 699 | 31 | 22.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Valley View Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (736 to 641); teachers down 13% (33 to 28.8).
About Valley View Middle School
A mid-sized middle school in Snohomish, Washington, Valley View Middle School is part of Snohomish School District. The school has 641 students in 2024-25 across grades 7 through 8.
Snohomish School District is made up of 18 schools with 9,732 students in all.
White students are 62% of those enrolled at Valley View Middle School. The remaining shares are 14% Asian, 13% Hispanic, and 9% multiracial. That is in line with Snohomish County, where about 64% of residents are White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 57%.
On staff are 28.8 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 22.3:1. The average for middle schools in Washington is 18.9:1, so this school has more students per teacher. About 21% of students at Valley View Middle School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Snohomish County is 41%.
Among Washington public middle schools, Valley View Middle School outscored 77%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Valley View Middle School would be expected to post about 66.0%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 61.3%.
For the population of Snohomish County, the median household earns about $111,246 a year, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Valley View Middle School shares Snohomish County with 226 other public schools.
Valley View Middle School's nearest public school is Glacier Peak High School (about 1.4 miles). There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Valley View Middle School is 8th on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment decreased 6% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Snohomish County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
844,430
Census ACS
Median income
$111,246
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
227
118,688 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Snohomish School District
- Glacier Peak High SchoolHigh · 1,642 students
- Snohomish High SchoolHigh · 1,496 students
- Centennial Middle SchoolMiddle · 734 students
- Dutch Hill ElementaryElementary · 694 students
- Little Cedars Elementary SchoolElementary · 646 students
- Machias ElementaryElementary · 615 students
Other schools in Snohomish
- Glacier Peak High SchoolHigh · 1,642 students
- Snohomish High SchoolHigh · 1,496 students
- Centennial Middle SchoolMiddle · 734 students
- Dutch Hill ElementaryElementary · 694 students
- Little Cedars Elementary SchoolElementary · 646 students
- Machias ElementaryElementary · 615 students
Other Valley View Middle schools
8 other US public schools in 7 states are named Valley View Middle. Valley View Middle School is the 6th largest of the 9.
- Valley View MiddleSimi Valley, CA · 1,329 students
- VALLEY VIEW MIDDLEEDINA, MN · 1,003 students
- Valley View MiddleSALEM, UT · 963 students
- Valley View MiddlePleasant Hill, CA · 819 students
- VALLEY VIEW MIDDLEBLOOMINGTON, MN · 647 students
Nearby schools
- Glacier Peak High School1.4 mi · 1,642
- Little Cedars Elementary School1.5 mi · 646
- Totem Falls1.9 mi · 412
- Silver Firs Elementary2.4 mi · 538
- Forest View Elementary School2.6 mi · 634
- Gateway Middle School2.6 mi · 1,057
Frequently asked questions
About Valley View Middle SchoolHow many students attend Valley View Middle School?
Valley View Middle School enrolls approximately 641 students in grades 07-08.
What grades does Valley View Middle School serve?
Valley View Middle School serves grades 07-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Valley View Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Valley View Middle School is approximately 22.3:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Valley View Middle School?
Student demographics at Valley View Middle School are roughly 62% White, 13% Hispanic, 1% Black, 14% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Valley View Middle School public or private?
Valley View Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Snohomish School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.