Valley View Intermediate School, Germantown OH

Original Research by School Decision on Valley View Intermediate School

Valley View Intermediate School serves grades four through six in Germantown, a small residential city in southwestern Montgomery County. The school is part of Valley View Local, a district that in late 2024 consolidated all K-12 operations into a single new campus on Farmersville Pike, replacing older, separate buildings. For families with fourth, fifth, and sixth graders, this means a transition into a unified facility designed to accommodate students across all grade bands under one roof.

In state testing across grades three through eight, Valley View Intermediate shows proficiency rates that place it above the midpoint among Montgomery County districts. In mathematics, roughly three-quarters of tested students reached proficiency. English language arts proficiency sits slightly below that. Science testing, administered to a smaller portion of the grade band, shows the strongest performance. The school achieved a full participation rate in all tested subjects. Only one year of comparable data is available, so trend direction cannot be determined, but the current proficiency index ranks in the top quartile relative to other tested schools countywide.

The school's enrollment is modest, with approximately five hundred students spread across fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. About four in ten students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is predominantly white, with small numbers of students of color. Data on special education enrollment and English learner status were not available.

Germantown itself is a bedroom community with slow growth, a compact historic downtown core, and tree-lined residential neighborhoods. Housing values are moderate, roughly aligned with state benchmarks, and the area functions as a commuter zone to Dayton and Miamisburg. The community has a public library, two municipal parks including one with seasonal swimming, and access nearby to Germantown MetroPark, a regional outdoor anchor with extensive trails. Transit options are limited; most residents drive to work.

The school district carries a substantial, long-term property tax obligation from a 2020 bond levy approved by voters to fund the K-12 consolidation project. This represents a direct ongoing cost for homeowners in the district. For families considering the area, that tax commitment is a material factor alongside the benefits of the new consolidated facility itself, which replaced buildings dating to the 1920s with modern, air-conditioned, ADA-accessible space.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grades 3-875%

School 75% · District 64% · ▲ 11 pts above district

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

English language arts

Grades 3-871%

School 71% · District 67% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Science

Grades 3-880%

School 80% · District 76% · ▲ 5 pts above district

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

Social studies

Grade 487%

School 87% · district not reported

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

Grade 665%

School 65% · district not reported

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▲ 26 pts above county median

This schoolValley View Local, 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 6Lower-income47%Higher-income57%10 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income33%Higher-income59%26 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income100%Higher-income100%0 pp gap