Valley View Elementary School, Hereford AZ

Original Research by School Decision on Valley View Elementary School

Valley View Elementary School in Hereford, Arizona, serves a single grade: preschool. It is a regular public school in the Palominas Elementary District and, like the community it sits in, is small and rural.

The school's enrollment is for prekindergarten only, and that enrollment is modest. The student body is predominantly white, with a Hispanic share of roughly one in five. The school does not serve any grade that participates in the state testing program, so there are no academic proficiency results to report. There is no graduation rate because the school does not serve high school students. A parent looking for test scores or academic outcome data will not find any here; this is an early-learning entry point, not a school where children sit for state assessments.

Hereford itself shapes what this school is. It is an unincorporated residential area spread along a corridor at the base of the Huachuca Mountains. The original townsite, which once had a general store, post office, railroad station, and school, was abandoned by the 1950s, and the last structures disappeared in the early 1960s. Nothing remains but a few concrete foundations and a ballasted rail bed. The present-day community is low-density and rural, with homes blended into the adjacent area of Nicksville. There is no downtown. The school sits on a dispersed site along the residential corridor. The area is known for its wildlife, particularly birds and butterflies, and is near the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area and the Coronado National Memorial.

The Palominas Elementary District oversees Valley View, and a search for recent district-wide changes that would be of lasting interest to parents found no information. The district has not reported any major curriculum shifts, boundary changes, or program expansions in recent years that are publicly accessible. A parent considering this school should be aware that the district-level context is quiet; what you see with the school is essentially what you get.

Because Valley View is a prekindergarten-only school, the standard measures used to compare schools — proficiency rates, graduation rates, chronic absenteeism — do not apply. The neighbor comparison tool groups schools in Cochise County but flags that none of these academic metrics are relevant here. The school's overall proficiency index across tested subjects and grades is also not applicable, because there are no tested grades. The one metric that does register, the proficiency index, places the school in the top quartile among the handful of county schools that had results, but those results come from a single past year and from grades the school no longer serves.

This is a school for families seeking a public preschool option in a rural, unincorporated setting where the built environment is sparse and the natural environment is the main draw. There are no test scores to evaluate, no graduation rate to consider, and no program pathways to investigate beyond the single grade offered. A parent should confirm directly with the school or district what the preschool program entails, including curriculum, hours, and any eligibility requirements, since those details are not part of the available data. The housing market in the Hereford area shows home values that are broadly in line with national benchmarks, and the area's unemployment rate tracks close to the national figure, but the community remains very small and without the commercial or civic infrastructure of a town. The school fits a family that knows they want a public pre-K option in this specific corner of Cochise County and is comfortable that the rest of the picture is essentially a blank slate.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 378%

School 78% · District 44% · ▲ 34 pts above district

▲ 34 pts above state median · ▲ 35 pts above county median

Grade 452%

School 52% · District 27% · ▲ 25 pts above district

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Grade 554%

School 54% · District 31% · ▲ 23 pts above district

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 679%

School 79% · District 19% · ▲ 60 pts above district

▲ 43 pts above state median · ▲ 42 pts above county median

Grade 740%

School 40% · District 28% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▲ 8 pts above state median

Grade 828%

School 28% · District 34% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 4 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 361%

School 61% · District 42% · ▲ 19 pts above district

▲ 21 pts above state median · ▲ 25 pts above county median

Grade 456%

School 56% · District 28% · ▲ 28 pts above district

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Grade 558%

School 58% · District 29% · ▲ 29 pts above district

▲ 17 pts above state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

Grade 658%

School 58% · District 36% · ▲ 22 pts above district

▲ 15 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

Grade 750%

School 50% · District 46% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Grade 838%

School 38% · District 39% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Science

Grade 479%

School 79% · district not reported

▲ 23 pts above state median

Grade 863%

School 63% · District 34% · ▲ 29 pts above district

▲ 30 pts above state median · ▲ 33 pts above county median

This schoolPalominas Elementary School District 49 (4180), same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.