The Blue Valley School District is dedicated to providing all students with an Education Beyond Expectations and one that allows students to succeed in school and in life. To ensure the success of district students, the district has set high standards that are reflected in what is taught in the classrooms. While holding high expectations for district students is not new, the way school and student achievement is measured and reported changed in 2002 after the federal law known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was enacted. As a result of NCLB, Kansas has devised a series of indicators, or benchmarks, that show if schools are making the required Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP).

In 2008, Blue Valley was the only district in the state of Kansas with more than 5,500 students to make NCLB's AYP in all of its schools, as well as the district. Of 232 possible opportunities for achieving the Standard of Excellence on the 2008 Kansas State Assessments, Blue Valley schools earned 229, and every Blue Valley school received the Building Standard of Excellence in reading and math.