Public school / Middle
Valley Jr High
West Valley City, Utah
- NCES ID
- 490036000267
- District
- Granite District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Valley Jr High is a public middle school in West Valley City, Utah, run by Granite District. It enrols 639 students — the 23473rd largest of 1,118 public schools in Utah.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
639
Teachers
29.0
Students per teacher
22.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
65.7%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Granite District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Granger High3,481 students
- 2Taylorsville High2,770 students
- 3Cyprus High2,709 students
- 4Hunter High2,595 students
- 5Kearns High2,382 students
- 6Skyline High2,124 students
- 7Olympus High2,123 students
- 8Cottonwood High1,585 students
- Enrollment+18.9%
- Teachers+16.0%
- Students per teacher−0.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+128.9%
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory