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Van Buren Co High School
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TCAP 2024-25 . % On Track or MasteredWhat this means: On the TCAP, Tennessee's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Tennessee schools, those numbers are about 41 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 2 points.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Van Buren Co High School
Set in Spencer, Tennessee, Van Buren Co High School is a close-knit four-year high school, operated by Van Buren County. It teaches 384 students across grades 6 through 12. That puts it 49% leaner than the typical public school in Tennessee, which averages around 754 students.
Van Buren Co High School is one of 2 schools operated by Van Buren County, a district that educates 756 students overall.
On demographics, Van Buren Co High School reports that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Van Buren County indicate the typical household earns roughly $54,931 per year, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Van Buren County runs 2 public schools (combined enrollment of about 756 students), of which Van Buren Co High School is one.
The closest other public school is Spencer Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.
Van Buren Co High School operates from an outlying location.
Five-year trend. Van Buren Co High School's enrollment has declined 5% since 2018, when it stood at 404 (now 384).
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Van Buren County at a glance
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Related schools
- Spencer Elementary0.1 mi · 372
- Doyle Elementary7.2 mi · 309
- Woodland Park Elementary10.8 mi · 509
- Eastside Elementary11.0 mi · 390
- White County High School13.0 mi · 1,014
- White Co Middle School13.2 mi · 827