Summary
Valley High School is a public high school located in Gilcrest, Colorado, serving 497 students in grades 9-12. The school is part of the Weld County Reorganized School District No. Re-1, which is ranked 89 out of 115 districts in the state and has a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Valley High School has consistently ranked in the bottom half of Colorado high schools, ranging from 183rd to 284th out of 411 schools in recent years, and has maintained a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger for most of the past decade, indicating poor overall performance compared to other schools in the state. The school's rankings for specific student groups, such as female, male, Hispanic, and white students, as well as low socioeconomic status students, are also in the bottom half of Colorado high schools, with the exception of Hispanic students, where the school has been in the top half in recent years. Valley High School's four-year graduation rate has fluctuated between 83.1% and 94.9%, and its dropout rate has ranged from 0.6% to 2.1% in the past few years.
The school's test scores, including CMAS, SAT, and PSAT, are consistently below the state and district averages in both reading/writing and mathematics, with the school's strongest performance being in PSAT9 reading and writing, where it has scored around the state average in recent years. The percentage of students at Valley High School receiving free or reduced-price lunch has increased significantly, from 25.88% in 2021-2022 to 52.31% in 2023-2024, suggesting a growing population of students from low-income backgrounds. The nearby high schools in the Greeley area, such as Greeley Central, Northridge, and Greeley West, have similar low rankings and performance metrics to Valley High School, with the exception of the Early College Academy, a high-performing charter school within the Greeley School District.
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