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Enrollment
514
Elementary
DISTRICT 445 · STATE 436
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PLAINFIELD COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORP·NCES 180897001495
Van Buren Elementary School
225 S Shaw St, Plainfield, IN 46168 · (317) 839-2575 · Hendricks County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL514 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 83% 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.
- A-Beats 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
17.9:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.6:1 · STATE 15.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
200 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 50%
Community
5
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 | 89 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 84 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 96 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (89) is 20% larger than its 5th grade class (74).
Student demographics
33%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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 Plainfield Community School Corp. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyEnglish Language Arts
56.2%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
67.3%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
57.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.0%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Indiana's top nor bottom 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 (57.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Van Buren Elementary School this school | 514 | 38.9% | 57.6% |
| Lancaster Central School Bluffton | 533 | 40.7% | 45.3% |
| Heritage Intermediate School Middlebury | 574 | 40.2% | 50.6% |
| Eisenhower Elementary School Warsaw | 474 | 38.0% | 58.5% |
| Olive Township Elementary School New Carlisle | 495 | 36.8% | 63.7% |
| Hebron Elementary School Hebron | 462 | 42.0% | 43.0% |
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 Hendricks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.6% | #183 of 983 | #17 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.3% | #152 of 986 | #15 of 24 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.2% | #165 of 986 | #16 of 24 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 514 | #343 of 1,079 | #14 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.9:1 | #875 of 991 | #27 of 29 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.5% | #609 of 996 | #24 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 38.9% | #805 of 1,058 | #11 of 28 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.0% | #465 of 597 | #13 of 13 |
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
514
-18 (-3%) vs 2020
+27% since 1990-91, when it was 404
Student : Teacher
17.9:1
was 17.2:1
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 | 514 | 28.7 | 17.9:1 | 39% (200) |
| 2023-24 | 500 | 29.8 | 16.8:1 | 37% (186) |
| 2022-23 | 532 | 31.1 | 17.1:1 | 35% (187) |
| 2020-21 | 532 | 31 | 17.2:1 | 31% (166) |
| 2017-18 | 541 | 29 | 18.7:1 | 30% (164) |
| 2015-16 | 558 | 28 | 19.9:1 | 32% (181) |
| 2010-11 | 563 | 24 | 23.5:1 | 31% (173) |
| 2000-01 | 488 | 27 | 18.1:1 | 21% (102) |
| 1990-91 | 404 | 22 | 18.4:1 | 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
Van Buren Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Plainfield, Indiana, under Plainfield Community School Corp. The school teaches kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 514 students.
Van Buren Elementary School is one school in Plainfield Community School Corp, a system of 9 schools with 5,917 students.
Van Buren Elementary School is 81% White by enrollment. The remaining shares are 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 3% Black. That is in line with Hendricks County, where about 78% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Van Buren Elementary School scores 33%.
A staff of 28.7 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 17.9:1. The gap from the 15.5:1 average for elementary schools in Indiana is 2.4 students per teacher. By family income, 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Hendricks County is similar, at 39%.
On the allk12 Grade, Van Buren Elementary School lands at A-, ahead of 83% of Indiana public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Van Buren Elementary School is 9.6 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 57.6% actual, 48.0% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Indiana.
For the population of Hendricks County, median household income comes to about $101,144, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Hendricks County's 47 public schools enroll about 33,487 students and include Van Buren Elementary School.
Of the public schools around it, Van Buren Elementary School is closest to Central Elementary School, about 0.2 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 53.4%; Van Buren Elementary School's is 57.6%, ranking 2nd of 5.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell from 532 to 514, a 3% decrease.
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Hendricks County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
183,344
Census ACS
Median income
$101,144
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
47
33,487 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Plainfield Community School Corp
- Plainfield High SchoolHigh · 1,856 students
- Plainfield Community Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,378 students
- Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 549 students
- Clarks Creek ElementaryElementary · 544 students
- Guilford ElementaryElementary · 434 students
- Brentwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 420 students
Other schools in Plainfield
- Plainfield High SchoolHigh · 1,856 students
- Plainfield Community Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,378 students
- Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 549 students
- Clarks Creek ElementaryElementary · 544 students
- Guilford ElementaryElementary · 434 students
- Brentwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 420 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 2nd largest of the 14.
- Van Buren Elementary SchoolBrazil, IN · 275 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
- Central Elementary School0.2 mi · 549
- Plainfield Community Middle School0.5 mi · 1,378
- Pride Academy0.5 mi · 12
- Brentwood Elementary School0.9 mi · 420
- Clarks Creek Elementary1.0 mi · 544
- Little Quakers Academy1.0 mi · 210
Frequently asked questions
About Van Buren Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Van Buren Elementary School?
Van Buren Elementary School enrolls approximately 514 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.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Van Buren Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Van Buren Elementary School is approximately 17.9:1 (29 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Van Buren Elementary School?
Van Buren Elementary School reports a student body of 81% White, 9% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Van Buren Elementary School?
Van Buren Elementary School is overseen by Plainfield Community School Corp in Hendricks County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.