Summary:
ZIP code 55439 in Edina, Minnesota is served by exactly one middle school — Valley View Middle, a grades 6–8 school with 1,003 students — so rather than comparing schools to one another, the most useful benchmarks are its parent district, Edina Public School District, and the state of Minnesota.
On 2025–2026 state tests, reading is Valley View's flagship subject: 79.4% of students met proficiency, which is 4 points above its own district and 30.8 points above the state (48.6%), and that margin over the state widened from 26.1 points in 2024–25. Math is nearly as strong at 69.8% — 24.9 points above the state and only 2.6 points behind the district — and it is unusually consistent across grades, with every grade between 67.9% and 72.0%. Science is reported for 8th grade only, where the school posts 35.3%. That figure sits far above the 8th-grade state result of 16.7% and roughly in line with the district's own 8th-grade result of 37.9%; it looks low only next to the district's all-grades average of 55.3%, which folds in other grade levels.
Statewide, Valley View ranks 5th of 546 Minnesota middle schools in 2025–2026 — the 99th percentile, with a 5-star rating — after climbing from 13th two years earlier to 9th and then 5th. Its district ranks 7th of 458 districts (98th percentile, 5 stars). For context, 15.85% of students qualified for free or reduced lunch in 2024–2025, and the student–teacher ratio was 16.9, or roughly 59–60 teachers across 1,003 students. Note that the three yearly rankings come from pools of slightly different sizes, so the improvement in position is real but measured against a shifting comparison group.
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