Two teachers from the school won the secondary category of the Minnesota Historical Society award for excellence in history curriculum in 1991.
Valley View is known for having highly regarded teachers who are entertaining and instructive to their students.
[4] A team of sixth-graders captured first place, in 1998, in the sixth-grade Blue Division of the WordMasters Challenge, a national language competition, against more than 35,000 participants from 435 private and public schools.
In 2011, the ninth-grade Knowledge Masters team won first place internationally.
[5] The school won the FBI Safe Online Surfing Award for January and February 2008.