NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools PA

Best-Resourced Schools in Butler, PA

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9 public K-12 schools in Butler from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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9
Schools
5,501
Students
43.3/100
Avg Resource Index
11.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Butler has more public-school enrollment than 60% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Butler Area Shs enrolls 35.6% of Butler's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

6 of Butler's 9 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Butler lists only 9 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 26 to 1,956 students, a 75-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 40%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
62nd percentile
Teacher staffing
90th percentile

Butler Area Shs accounts for 35.6% of all Butler public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Butler-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Butler school enrollment varies 75× across entities

Butler school enrollment ranges from 26 students (lowest) to 1,956 students (highest), a spread of 1,930 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Butler student-teacher ratio is 11.7:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Butler County Avts 95
2. Center Twp Sch 44
3. Emily Brittain El Sch 41
4. Butler Area Ihs 40
5. Northwest El Sch 38
6. Mcquistion El Sch 36
7. Summit El Sch 35
8. Broad Street El Sch 33
9. Butler Area Shs 28

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Butler

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Broad Street El Sch 44.0/100
  2. 2 Emily Brittain El Sch 33.6/100
  3. 3 Mcquistion El Sch 20.8/100
  4. 4 Butler Area Shs 15.7/100
  5. 5 Butler Area Ihs 15.3/100

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Which Butler school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Butler County Avts has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Butler schools in this federal-data comparison at 95/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Butler, PA? ▼

Butler has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,501 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.7:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.