Valencia Valley Elementary, Valencia CA

Original Research by School Decision on Valencia Valley Elementary

Valencia Valley Elementary sits on Carrizo Drive in Valencia's master-planned residential grid, part of the Newhall School District serving kindergarten through sixth grade. The community around it is distinctly suburban: organized into discrete residential villages, threaded by an extensive paseo trail network of paved, lighted paths that let families walk and bike to schools and parks without crossing major roads at grade. Valencia itself is a large, established planned community within the Santa Clarita Valley, anchored commercially around the Valencia Town Center and major employers ranging from Princess Cruises and College of the Canyons to an aerospace and biotech corridor in the industrial gateway. The area is experiencing active growth, particularly through a large new master-planned development on the western edge where thousands of additional homes are under construction and two more villages were approved by Los Angeles County in 2025.

On academics, the school's state assessment results from the most recent year are strong. Across English language arts, the school posts results well above the midpoint among districts in Los Angeles County, with third through sixth graders testing proficient at rates that range from the mid-seventies to the low eighties. Math results are also solid, and notably the sixth-grade math proficiency is the highest of any tested grade, which is an encouraging pattern for students approaching middle school. The fourth-grade math result is the softest across the tested grades, something a parent might want to ask the school about in terms of curriculum progression. Science results at fifth grade are healthy as well, placing the school in the top quartile of the county comparison set on the overall proficiency index across tested subjects and grades. Trend data spans only a single year in this dataset, so multi-year patterns cannot be assessed from what is available here.

Enrollment is distributed fairly evenly across grades, making it a moderately sized elementary school for its grade band. The student body is racially and ethnically mixed: white students make up the largest share, with Hispanic students the second largest group, followed by students identifying as two or more races and a smaller Asian population. About a third of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which is a meaningful but not dominant share. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in this dataset, so families whose children need those services should ask the school directly about capacity and caseloads.

Civil rights data was not provided in the available payload, so discipline practices and any disparity metrics cannot be addressed here.

The Newhall School District has made several program additions that carry through to Valencia Valley. Proposition 28, approved statewide in 2022, now delivers dedicated arts and music funding annually, and the district publicly reports that music teachers travel to each school site serving students from pre-kindergarten through third grade. That is a concrete, recurring program rather than a one-time allocation. The district also rolled out Universal Pre-Kindergarten aligned with the state mandate, giving families an earlier, tuition-free entry point that predates the traditional kindergarten year. A Spanish Dual Language Immersion program operates within the district at Old Orchard Elementary, filled by lottery, though that program is site-specific and not at Valencia Valley itself.

Housing in the Valencia zip code is expensive. Home values are well above both the state and national benchmarks, and rents sit at a level where a renter spending the typical share of income would be stretched. Year-over-year home values have edged slightly downward while rents have risen modestly, a dynamic that makes the buy-versus-rent calculation worth running carefully. The broader growth trajectory of the FivePoint Valencia development means that school enrollment across the area is likely to increase over the next decade, and families in the newer sections of that development should note that schools within the development itself are still in the planning stage.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 368%

School 68% · District 64% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 25 pts above state median · ▲ 22 pts above county median

Grade 454%

School 54% · District 62% · ▼ 8 pts below district

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

Grade 565%

School 65% · District 61% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▲ 34 pts above state median · ▲ 31 pts above county median

Grade 678%

School 78% · District 68% · ▲ 10 pts above district

▲ 47 pts above state median · ▲ 47 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 376%

School 76% · District 64% · ▲ 12 pts above district

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

Grade 475%

School 75% · District 66% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▲ 33 pts above state median · ▲ 31 pts above county median

Grade 583%

School 83% · District 74% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▲ 38 pts above state median · ▲ 36 pts above county median

Grade 678%

School 78% · District 74% · ▲ 4 pts above district

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

Science

Grade 569%

School 69% · District 58% · ▲ 11 pts above district

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

This schoolNewhall, 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.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income72%Higher-income79%7 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income76%Higher-income74%1 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income71%Higher-income89%18 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income65%Higher-income84%20 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income50%Higher-income77%27 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income46%Higher-income58%12 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income59%Higher-income67%8 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income71%Higher-income81%11 pp gap