Valley View Elementary

Valley View Elementary is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Menomonee Falls School District, serveing 369 students in grades 3 through 5.

Valley View Elementary is one of 6 schools operated by Menomonee Falls School District, a district that instructs 3,876 students overall.

On demographics, Valley View Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. Other groups include 7% Black, 7% multiracial, 7% Asian, 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Waukesha County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 20% of students at Valley View Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Valley View Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.2%, the actual is 66.6%, a residual of +1.4 points.

Around the school, census data for Waukesha County shows the typical household earns roughly $106,076 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. In all, Waukesha County runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,032 students), of which Valley View Elementary is one.

North Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Valley View Elementary comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 67.9%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 369 students in 2018 compared to 369 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.