Valley View Independent School District is a public school district in unincorporated Hidalgo County, Texas (USA), near Pharr and McAllen, 2 miles (3.2 km) from the Mexico border. Its offices are at 9701 S. Jackson RD Pharr, TX 78577.

Covering 10 square miles (26 km2), it serves 4,366 grade PK-12 students in the cities of Hidalgo, McAllen and Pharr. In 2009, it was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.[1]

In 2018, Valley View Elementary and South Valley View Elementary schools were both named National Blue Ribbon Schools by the U.S. Department of Education.[2]

Valley View's soccer team, the Tigers, is ranked in the top 20 nationally. Year after year, they have been eliminated in the quarter-finals and semi-finals. They reached the final, which they lost in the last minute of play; it was their only loss of the year.[3]

David Garcia was ranked #1 in the world in the 114 lbs. division of power lifting, which he won in Reno, Nevada.

Schools

  • Valley View High School (Grades 11-12) (With only a couple of hundreds T-STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics] freshmen each year)
  • Valley View Early College Campus (Grades 9-10)
  • Valley View Junior High School (Grades 7-8)
  • Valley View Elementary (Grades PK-6)
  • Valley View North Elementary (Grades PK-4)
  • Valley View South Elementary (Grades PK-4)
  • Wilbur E. Lucas Elementary (Grades PK-4) (Named after a founder of the Valley View Independent School District)

References

  1. ↑ "2009 Accountability Rating System". Texas Education Agency. Archived from the original on 2015-10-25.
  2. ↑ "National Blue Ribbon Schools Program: 2018 National Blue Ribbon Schools" (PDF). United States Department of Education. Retrieved January 18, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Valley View High School (Pharr, TX) Varsity Soccer".

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