VAN BUREN HIGH

As a tight-knit senior high in VAN BUREN, Missouri, VAN BUREN HIGH enrolls 221 students from grades 7 through 12, run under VAN BUREN R-I. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so VAN BUREN HIGH sits 56% below that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in VAN BUREN R-I (466 students total), VAN BUREN HIGH accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, VAN BUREN HIGH reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). Beyond that, the school shows 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, VAN BUREN HIGH tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 54.6%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Carter County shows the typical household earns roughly $50,000 per year, 10% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Carter County's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,164 students), VAN BUREN HIGH is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: VAN BUREN ELEM., around 0.1 miles off. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts VAN BUREN HIGH at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 45.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at VAN BUREN HIGH has changed only slightly, going from 222 students in 2018 to 221 in 2025.

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