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Lawrence, Michigan - 3 schools
Van Buren Isd operates 3 public schools serving 591 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 1 high schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Van Buren County.
The funding mix is 55.9% local, 32.7% state, and 11.4% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 49.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 69.8% White, 13.8% Hispanic or Latino, 9.3% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Bert Goens Learning Center, with a diversity index of 58.8/100.
Its largest campus is Bert Goens Learning Center, enrolling 70 students (45% of the district's total enrollment).
Van Buren Isd school enrollment ranges from 33 students (lowest) to 70 students (highest), a spread of 37 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Average demographic composition across 3 schools in Van Buren Isd.
Source: NCES CCD School Membership 2024-25.
Average Simpson diversity index across Van Buren Isd's schools, above the Michigan average of 36.2.
Source: NCES Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22.
| School | Enrollment |
|---|---|
| Bert Goens Learning Center | 70 |
| Communitybased Transition Center | 53 |
| Maple Creek Education Center | 33 |
The Michigan districts closest to this one in total enrollment.
| District | Enrollment | Spending | Funding Mix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bellevue Community Schools | Similar size | No spending data | Less locally funded |
| Norway-Vulcan Area Schools | Similar size | No spending data | Less locally funded |
| Summerfield Schools | Similar size | No spending data | Less locally funded |
| Beecher Community School District | Similar size | No spending data | Less locally funded |
| Joseph K. Lumsden Bahweting Anishnabe Academy | Similar size | No spending data | Less locally funded |
Comparisons are relative to Van Buren Isd's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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Compare vs Detroit Public Schools Community District →Van Buren Isd has 3 schools, including 2 combined, 1 high. Total enrollment is 591 students.
Van Buren Isd students are 69.8% White, 13.8% Hispanic or Latino, 9.3% African American, averaged across 3 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.
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