Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools.
8 public K-12 schools in Maple Valley from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Maple Valley has more public-school enrollment than 70% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Tahoma Senior High School enrolls 40.9% of Maple Valley's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.
Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio
6 of Maple Valley's 8 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.
A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales
Maple Valley lists only 8 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 40 to 2,919 students, a 73-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.
City enrollment
Top 30%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
59th percentile
Teacher staffing
26th percentile
Tahoma Senior High School accounts for 40.9% of all Maple Valley public-school enrollment
That dominant concentration means Maple Valley-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
Maple Valley school enrollment varies 73× across entities
Maple Valley school enrollment ranges from 40 students (lowest) to 2,919 students (highest), a spread of 2,879 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.
Maple Valley operates one school district — a single-district system
Maple Valley's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.
Maple Valley student-teacher ratio is 17.9:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure
student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Maple Valley is typically wider than the Maple Valley-aggregate figure suggests.
Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Maple Valley
Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.
What do families ask about schools in Maple Valley?
Which Maple Valley school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼
Rock Creek Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Maple Valley schools in this federal-data comparison at 47/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
How many schools are in Maple Valley, WA? ▼
Maple Valley has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,131 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17.9:1.
Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio,
counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes:
verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.
