Valley View Independent School District is a public
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Hidalgo County,
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), near
Pharr and McAllen, from the Mexico border. Its offices are at 9701 S. Jackson RD Pharr, TX 78577.
Covering , it serves 4,366 grade PK-12 students in the cities of Hidalgo, McAllen and Pharr. In 2009, it was rated "
academically acceptable
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In 2018, Valley View Elementary and South Valley View Elementary schools were both named National
Blue Ribbon Schools
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by the U.S. Department of Education.
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.
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 9-12) (With only a couple of hundreds
T-STEM cience, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics freshmen each year)
*Valley View Early College Campus (Grades 8-9)
*Valley View Junior High School (Grades 6-7)
*Valley View 5th Grade Campus (Grade 5)
*Valley View Elementary (Grades PK-4)
*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)
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School districts in Hidalgo County, Texas
Pharr, Texas