About Valley View
Welcome to Valley View Elementary, home of the Cheetahs. At Valley View, we are Cheetah PRIDE. We live the values Patience, Respect, Integrity, Determination, and Excellence.
Our Purpose and Principles
Valley View Elementary School is a safe, positive, collaborative community that values academic and behavioral excellence. Professionals, paraprofessionals, students and parents work together to attain our common vision. We work to ensure maximum individual growth for all students in knowledge, reasoning and attitude, leading toward success and community participation as adults. Teachers match appropriate instructional methods to desired outcomes. A variety of assessment types, surveys, and reliable research are used to evaluate success, refine our vision, and define staff development.
Valley View uses Toolbox to solve problems and help with learning.
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Valley View Elementary School is a safe, positive, collaborative community that values academic and behavioral excellence. Professionals, paraprofessionals, students and parents work together to attain our common vision. We work to ensure maximum individual growth for all students in knowledge, reasoning and attitude, leading toward success and community participation as adults. Teachers match appropriate instructional methods to desired outcomes. A variety of assessment types, surveys, and reliable research are used to evaluate success, refine our vision, and define staff development.
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Valley View uses Toolbox to solve problems and help with learning.
Contact Us
Renae Holton
3555 N. Milwaukee Street Phone: (208) 854-6370
Boise, ID 83704 Fax: (208) 854-6371
Our main office is open from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
If you know your student is going to be absent, please call our office at (208) 854-6370
History
Valley View Elementary School is located in Boise on Milwaukee Street of Capital High School. The school opened in September of 1969 and was built at the same time as Maple Grove and Owyhee Elementary. The design of both Valley View and Owyhee was primarily a result of the open classroom movement at the time. Both schools were built with a “cluster” of classrooms that had movable partitions meant to facilitate team teaching and cooperative learning. Instead of students going from room to room for different courses, teachers trade sections within the cluster.
The 29,200 square foot structure was designed by Nat J. Adams of Boise and built by Walter Opp Construction Company of Nampa. During the time when Valley View was built, school names reflected neighborhood and street names near the school. Valley View Drive runs near the elementary school. The school was dedicated on November 20, 1969.
Due to population growth, an expansion was added on to the school increasing the total classrooms to 18 and clusters to six. In January of1971, construction was completed and students moved into the new fifth and sixth grade clusters. The main building also included a library and multipurpose room used for lunch, physical education, and other school and community activities. Four portable buildings were on the property to accommodate and support special programs as well as highly flexible usage. The property also featured a large playground.
In March of 2017, voters passed a bond that supported an Educational Facilities Master Plan to reinvest in our neighborhood schools and community. Part of the bond included a new Valley View Elementary, to be built in the same location, that would help address flexible space needs, meet modern education standards, and provide adequate space for physical education and music.
In 2019, construction began on site for a new Valley View Elementary designed by LKV Architects and construction management services by Beniton Construction. In August of 2021, the new building of Valley View Elementary opened for students.
