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Submitted by parent on February 22, 2025
Our Van Buren experience has been a positive one. We transferred to VBE last school year. Both of our children still comment, randomly, how glad they are that they changed schools.The teachers are engaging and attentive to individual needs. Teachers are actively involved in family nights, STEM activities, and extra-curricular activities like Robotics, Mental Math and Student Council.The school is inviting and encourages parental involvement in the learning process and activities. The PTO is very active and is a great supporter of the teachers, staff, parents and students.VBE has demonstrated, to us, that they care about the student as a whole and not just the test scores that can be achieved. They build on character traits that every parent should hope their own children would possess and then recognize students weekly when they exemplify those assets in the classroom.VBE continues to be the school we would choose over and over again. Our only regret is that we did not start at VBE from the beginning.