High · Iowa
Valley High School
Valley High School, a public high school in West Des Moines, Iowa: grades 10–12, 2,178 students, 18.3 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of West Des Moines Comm School District.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 2,178
- Teachers (FTE)
- 118.9
- Students per teacher
- 18.3
- Grades
- 10–12
- High
More students per teacher than 91% of high schools in Iowa
Median 13.9 · 346 schools compared
More students per teacher than 75% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 99% of high schools in Iowa
Median 295 · 351 schools compared
Larger than 95% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 10–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Area
- Small city
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with West Des Moines Comm School District.
Location
- Address
- 3650 Woodland Ave, West Des Moines, IA 50266
- Phone
- (515)633-4000
- City or town
- West Des Moines
- County
- Polk County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Valley SouthwoodsFree meals for all | 9 | 678 | 13.9 |
Walnut Creek CampusAlternativeFree meals for all | 9–12 | 152 | 10.8 |
Roosevelt High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 2,051 | 31.2 |
| 9–12 | 1,301 | 14.8 | |
Hoover High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 898 | 20.6 |
| 9 | 539 | 15.1 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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