Summary
Eastbrook North Elementary is a K–5 school serving 304 students in the small town of Van Buren, Indiana, and is one of two elementary schools in the Eastbrook Community School Corp. In 2025-2026 it ranked 547th of 1,015 Indiana elementary schools (46th percentile, 2 stars), which sits below its district's own standing (124th of 374 districts, 67th percentile) — a standing carried largely by its sibling, Eastbrook South Elementary (370th of 1,015, 64th percentile, 3 stars). Across ten visible years, North has stayed in the 32nd–49th percentile band with a single 3-star exception in 2024-2025, when it reached the 60th percentile; the following year's results did not sustain that high-water mark.
The clearest pattern inside the school is a sharp split between subjects. Math proficiency is 52.94% — the highest of any school in this peer group, above the district's 44.26% — while English Language Arts sits at 35.95%, nearly 8 points below the district and in the bottom third of the group. That is roughly a 17-point math-over-ELA gap, compared with about 3 points at Eastbrook South. Performance also fades as students move up: third graders beat the state in both subjects (43.64% ELA, 65.45% math), but by fifth grade North trails the state in both (30.00% ELA, 38.00% math). Fifth-grade social studies is the weakest spot of all at 28.0% — the lowest among comparison schools that report it, and far behind Eastbrook South's 53.57%.
Attendance is a genuine bright spot: chronic absenteeism has fallen by roughly half in four years, from 23.2% in 2020-2021 to 11.5% in 2024-2025, now below both the district and the state (16.7%). About 55.92% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch — higher than Eastbrook South (43.75%) — and the school spends $11,254 per student with a 15.2 student-to-teacher ratio, the second-lowest in the group. Salamonie Elementary School is North's closest academic twin (math 52.45%, ELA 36.36%), offering the most useful nearby benchmark.
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