Van Buren Middle School

Van Buren Middle School is one of the intimate middle-grades schools in Van Buren, Ohio, run under Van Buren Local, with 237 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 51% below the state mean of about 482.

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

On the student-mix side, Van Buren Middle School records that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Van Buren Middle School records 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Hancock County put the typical household earns roughly $73,141 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Van Buren Middle School is one of 37 public schools in Hancock County (combined enrollment of about 11,975 students).

Van Buren High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Van Buren Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 10%: 263 students in 2018 compared to 237 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 95% to 90% over that span.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.