Summary:
ZIP code 45889 is home to three public schools serving grades K–12, all within the Van Buren Local district in Ohio: Van Buren Elementary School (K–5, 468 students), Van Buren Middle School (6–8, 237 students), and Van Buren High School (9–12, 347 students), for a combined 1,052 students. The district ranks 152 of 773 Ohio districts, the 80th percentile with 4 stars, and all three schools earned 4 stars in 2025–26.
Van Buren Middle School is the academic engine, ranking in the 89th percentile statewide and scoring above the state average in every reported subject, with Algebra I proficiency at 100% in both years. Its percentiles have held steady at 86, 86, and 89. Van Buren High School is the most improved, rising from the 64th to the 73rd percentile and reporting a 98.7% graduation rate, though Algebra I lagged the state at 52.5 vs. 61.6 while Geometry exceeded it. Van Buren Elementary School remains solid, with math roughly 15–22 points above state and science about 20 points above, but its percentile fell from 86 to 72 over three years.
On other measures, chronic absenteeism is lowest at the elementary school at 2.5%, compared with 5.4% at the high school and 6.1% at the middle school, against a district rate of 4.2%. Free/reduced lunch is 38.33% at the high school and 25.43% at the elementary school, while the middle school's figure is not reported. Notably, the middle school has the lowest 2018–19 per-student spending at $9,765 and the highest student-teacher ratio at 19.7, yet the strongest outcomes.
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