Public school / Primary
Valley Junior High School
Jasper, Alabama
- NCES ID
- 010345001611
- District
- Walker County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Valley Junior High School is a public primary school in Jasper, Alabama, run by Walker County. It enrols 599 students — the 26907th largest of 1,528 public schools in Alabama.
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
599
Teachers
32.0
Students per teacher
18.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
69.6%
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 Walker County
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.
- 1Sumiton Elementary School714 students
- 2Oakman Middle School648 students
- 3Valley Junior High School599 students
- 4Curry Elementary School547 students
- 5Carbon Hill Elementaryjunior High School492 students
- 6Dora High School472 students
- 7Cordova High School467 students
- 8Sumiton Middle School452 students
- Enrollment+17.2%
- Teachers+18.5%
- Students per teacher+5.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+5.8%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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