BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL

BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL is a moderately sized 6-8 campus in VAN BUREN, Arkansas, overseen by VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school enrolls 557 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 20% above the state mean of about 464.

BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 11 schools operated by VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that instructs 5,703 students overall.

In terms of who attends, BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White, at 55% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 31% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Crawford County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Crawford County runs at roughly 65%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.3%, the actual is 26.4%, a residual of -2.9 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Crawford County) records that the typical household earns roughly $64,132 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 23 public schools in Crawford County (combined enrollment of about 10,496 students).

Nearest neighbor: KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 663 (now 557). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 22% to 31%.

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