Van Buren Elementary School

Van Buren Elementary School, a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Plainfield, Indiana, one of the schools within Plainfield Community School Corp, instructs 514 students, covering grades K through 5.

Within Plainfield Community School Corp, which oversees 9 schools and 5,917 students, Van Buren Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Van Buren Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%). The remainder is composed of 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Hendricks County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Roughly 39% of students at Van Buren Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Van Buren Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.0%; this one delivers 57.6%.

In the surrounding community, Hendricks County reports that median household income runs about $101,144, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Hendricks County's 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,487 students), Van Buren Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Central Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Van Buren Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 53.4%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Van Buren Elementary School has declined 5%, going from 541 students in 2018 to 514 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 89% to 81% across the same window.

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