Valley View School, Montville Township NJ

Original Research by School Decision on Valley View School

Valley View School serves students from preschool through fifth grade in the Montville Township School District, a predominantly residential suburban community in Morris County. The school is one of the district’s elementary buildings, and its enrollment is small, drawing from the surrounding neighborhood in the Montville section of the township. The student body is predominantly white, with a substantial Asian population making up the next largest group. Hispanic, multiracial, Black, and Native American students each represent smaller shares. A very small proportion of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a figure low enough to indicate that the school serves a generally affluent attendance zone.

Montville Township has grown notably in recent years, and the housing market reflects high demand. Home values sit well above national and state benchmarks, and the county-level real estate data shows limited inventory and a fast-moving market, with homes spending a short time on average before going under contract. Commuting patterns are typical for a Morris County suburb; many residents work outside the township, and NJ Transit rail service from the Towaco station connects to larger employment centers. The township lacks a single concentrated downtown, with commercial and civic functions spread across its three sections.

State assessment results for Valley View are strong. In both math and English language arts, the share of students scoring proficient or advanced is high, and the school’s overall proficiency index places it in the top quartile among districts in Morris County. In science, tested only at fifth grade, the proficiency rate is lower than what the school achieves in literacy and math, though still above a simple pass-fail threshold. A parent may want to ask the school how the science curriculum maps to the state assessment, particularly given that the testing occurs only at the end of elementary school.

Because Valley View serves only early and elementary grades, there is no graduation rate to report. Data on chronic absenteeism and discipline was not available in the source material, nor were counts for students with individualized education plans or English learners. These gaps mean a parent cannot assess from published records how the school serves students who need extra support, and that is worth raising with the school directly.

The Montville Township School District itself has no recent major changes on the order of a referendum, budget crisis, or curriculum overhaul, based on a search of publicly reported information. That stability may appeal to families looking for consistency, though it also means the district has not signaled a particular new direction in recent years.

Valley View is a solid academic performer within a well-regarded suburban district, set in a community with high housing costs and strong demand. For a family that can manage the local real estate market and wants a neighborhood elementary school with consistently strong test results, it fits that profile well. The science scores and the missing data on special populations are soft spots that warrant a direct conversation with the school before enrolling, especially for a child who might need academic intervention or English language support.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 377%

School 77% · District 84% · ▼ 6 pts below district

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

Grade 475%

School 75% · District 77% · ▼ 2 pts below district

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

Grade 576%

School 76% · District 72% · ▲ 4 pts above district

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

English language arts

Grade 370%

School 70% · District 77% · ▼ 7 pts below district

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

Grade 477%

School 77% · District 83% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

Grade 585%

School 85% · District 81% · ▲ 4 pts above district

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

Science

Grade 556%

School 56% · District 58% · ▼ 2 pts below district

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

This schoolMontville Township School District, 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.