Enrollment
275
Elementary
DISTRICT 290 · STATE 436
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLAY COMMUNITY SCHOOLS·NCES 180084000164
Van Buren Elementary School
2075 E CR 1200 N, Brazil, IN 47834 · (812) 448-1362 · Clay County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL275 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 85% of Indiana public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Indiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 15.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
144 students
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 50%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 40 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 21% |
| Grade 2 | 55 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 41 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 36 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 46 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (40) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (46).
Student demographics
11%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 13% · STATE 57% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Clay Community Schools. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyEnglish Language Arts
41.3%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
65.1%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
Source: ILEARN. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IN schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
54.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.5%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 38% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in Indiana's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Van Buren Elementary School
Van Buren Elementary School's state test result (54.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Van Buren Elementary School this school | 275 | 52.4% | 54.9% |
| Sugar Creek Elementary School Crawfordsville | 271 | 52.4% | 62.1% |
| Fayette Elementary School West Terre Haute | 307 | 51.8% | 39.3% |
| Dillsboro Elementary School Dillsboro | 267 | 50.2% | 51.4% |
| Van Duyn Elementary School Clinton | 242 | 52.1% | 54.4% |
| New Washington Elementary School New Washington | 296 | 51.0% | 38.5% |
Matched among Indiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Van Buren Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Indiana | In Clay County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.9% | #229 of 983 | #4 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.1% | #181 of 986 | #3 of 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.3% | #426 of 986 | #6 of 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 275 | #879 of 1,079 | #4 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.4:1 | #821 of 991 | #4 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 11.2% | #929 of 996 | #6 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 52.4% | #541 of 1,058 | #4 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.7% | #192 of 353 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
275
+53 (+24%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 339
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
was 12.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 275 | 15.8 | 17.4:1 | 52% (144) |
| 2023-24 | 269 | 19.4 | 13.9:1 | 63% (170) |
| 2022-23 | 246 | 18 | 13.7:1 | 65% (161) |
| 2020-21 | 222 | 18 | 12.3:1 | 69% (154) |
| 2017-18 | 253 | 17.3 | 14.7:1 | 60% (153) |
| 2015-16 | 245 | 17 | 14.4:1 | 66% (161) |
| 2010-11 | 239 | 12 | 19.9:1 | 60% (143) |
| 2000-01 | 254 | 13 | 19.5:1 | 21% (54) |
| 1990-91 | 339 | 18 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Van Buren Elementary School.
About Van Buren Elementary School
In Brazil, Indiana, Van Buren Elementary School is a small elementary school. The school enrolls 275 students, from kindergarten through 5. Average enrollment for elementary schools in Indiana is about 436, so this school runs 37% smaller than that.
Clay Community Schools counts 3,995 students in its 10 schools, and Van Buren Elementary School is one of them.
Van Buren Elementary School enrolls a student body that is 94% White. Beyond that, enrollment is 3% multiracial and 2% Hispanic. The White share in Clay County as a whole is similar, at about 95%. By the diversity index, Van Buren Elementary School comes in at 11%.
A ratio of 17.4:1 comes from the school's 15.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 15.5:1 average for elementary schools in Indiana is lower than this school's figure. The lunch program counts 52% of students at Van Buren Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
Measured against Indiana public elementary schools, Van Buren Elementary School receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Van Buren Elementary School is in the top 10% of Indiana schools on the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure. Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 38.5%. The school's actual rate is 54.9%, 16.4 points higher.
Van Buren Elementary School is located in Clay County, where median household income is about $70,010, roughly 20% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 10 public schools in Clay County, with a combined enrollment of about 3,995.
Nearest public school: East Side Elementary School, about 3.4 miles away. The five-mile area around Van Buren Elementary School holds 3 other public schools. Nearby schools average 49.2% on proficiency, and Van Buren Elementary School is above that at 54.9%.
The NCES locale for Van Buren Elementary School is Rural: Fringe, which covers schools in rural territory close to an urban area.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 24%, from 222 to 275. The ratio of students to teachers went from 12.3:1 to 17.4:1 over the same years.
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Clay County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
26,409
Census ACS
Median income
$70,010
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
10
3,995 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Clay Community Schools
- Northview High SchoolHigh · 863 students
- North Clay Middle SchoolMiddle · 734 students
- Clay City Elementary SchoolElementary · 385 students
- Staunton Elementary SchoolElementary · 373 students
- Clay City Jr-Sr High SchoolHigh · 366 students
- Meridian Street Elementary SchoolElementary · 321 students
Other schools in Brazil
- Northview High SchoolHigh · 863 students
- North Clay Middle SchoolMiddle · 734 students
- Staunton Elementary SchoolElementary · 373 students
- Meridian Street Elementary SchoolElementary · 321 students
- Jackson Township Elementary SchoolElementary · 237 students
- Forest Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 232 students
Other Van Buren Elementary schools
13 other US public schools in 10 states are named Van Buren Elementary. Van Buren Elementary School is the 11th largest of the 14.
- Van Buren Elementary SchoolPlainfield, IN · 514 students
- Van Buren Elementary SchoolNashville, IN · 210 students
- Van Buren ElementaryPlacentia, CA · 538 students
- VAN BUREN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBALDWINSVILLE, NY · 488 students
- Van Buren ElementaryStockton, CA · 473 students
Nearby schools
- East Side Elementary School3.4 mi · 209
- Meridian Street Elementary School4.1 mi · 321
- Forest Park Elementary School4.1 mi · 232
- Jackson Township Elementary School6.1 mi · 237
- Northview High School6.1 mi · 863
- North Clay Middle School6.3 mi · 734
Frequently asked questions
About Van Buren Elementary SchoolHow large is Van Buren Elementary School?
Van Buren Elementary School enrolls approximately 275 students in grades KG-05.
Is Van Buren Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Van Buren Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Van Buren Elementary School?
Approximately 17.4:1 students per teacher at Van Buren Elementary School.
How diverse is Van Buren Elementary School?
Van Buren Elementary School reports a student body of 94% White, 2% Hispanic, 3% Two or more.
What district is Van Buren Elementary School in?
Van Buren Elementary School is part of Clay Community Schools.
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