Valley Falls

Valley Falls has two schools serving preschool through grade 12: Valley Falls Elementary serves PK–8, and Valley Falls High serves grades 9–12. In 2025–26, both schools’ all-grades proficiency rates were below the state rates in every reported subject: elementary and high school ELA were 31% and 26%, compared with 46% statewide; math was 25% and 26%, compared with 41%; and science was 27% and 16%, compared with 38%. The most important overall finding is that below-state proficiency is a shared concern across subjects, not a weakness limited to one school or subject.

The elementary school has the higher reported all-grades ELA and science rates, leading by 5 percentage points in ELA and 12 in science; the high school is ahead in math by 1 point. These all-grades comparisons cover different grade spans, so they do not show which school would perform better at the same grade. Within the elementary grades, fourth-grade math stands out at 50%, 6 points above the state, while sixth-grade ELA and math are much lower, at 13% and 12%—30 and 29 points below state rates. The high school’s reported 100% graduation rate also stands out against 90% statewide, though chronic absenteeism is higher: 26% versus 18%.

Recent achievement trends are mixed: ELA declined at both schools, by 5 percentage points at the elementary school and 2 at the high school. Elementary math fell by 8 points, while high-school math rose by 9 points, though it remained below the state rate. SchoolDigger rankings also fell from 2023–24 to 2025–26: the elementary school went from the 32nd percentile to the 18th, and the high school from the 58th to the 16th; both received 1 star in 2025–26. The elementary school has a higher student–teacher ratio (11.5 versus 10) and free/reduced-lunch rate (33% versus 30%); these are context measures, not explanations for the results.