Van Buren Elementary School

Van Buren Elementary School operates as a small elementary school in Nashville, Indiana, one of the schools within Brown County School Corporation. Current enrollment sits at 210 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 52% below the state mean of about 436.

Within Brown County School Corporation, which oversees 5 schools and 1,549 students, Van Buren Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Van Buren Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Other groups include 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Brown County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Van Buren Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.9%, the actual is 38.0%, a residual of -6.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Brown County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $78,528 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Brown County's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,549 students), Van Buren Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Brown County High School, around 6.5 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Van Buren Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Van Buren Elementary School has showed little movement, going from 206 students in 2018 to 210 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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