Van Buren Elementary School

Set in Van Buren, Ohio, Van Buren Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary campus, one of the schools within Van Buren Local. It works with 468 students across grades K through 5.

Across the 3 schools in Van Buren Local (1,052 students total), Van Buren Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Van Buren Elementary School lists that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Van Buren Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 25% of students at Van Buren Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hancock County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Van Buren Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 79.2%; this one delivers 83.8%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Hancock County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,141 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Van Buren Elementary School is one of 37 public schools in Hancock County (combined enrollment of about 11,975 students).

Nearest neighbor: Van Buren High School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Van Buren Elementary School comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 67.4%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Van Buren Elementary School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 479 (now 468). Over the same period, the White share rose from 85% to 91%.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.