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If you could change one rule at BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL, what would it be?
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Enrollment
557
Middle
DISTRICT 635 · STATE 464
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051341001102
BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL
310 NORTH 11 ST, VAN BUREN, AR 72956 · (479) 474-6838 · Crawford County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL557 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 24% of Arkansas public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Arkansas public middle schools
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
449 students
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 70%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 186 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 193 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 178 | 32% |
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 61% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
23.2%
AR avg 34.9% . +3.6pp since 2023
Math
28.5%
AR avg 38.9% . +2.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.2% | 28.5% |
| 2023-24 | 19.6% | 25.9% |
% Proficient (Level 3+4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: ATLAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
27.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.9%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Arkansas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL
BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (27.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 557 | 80.6% | 27.4% |
| DARDANELLE MIDDLE SCHOOL DARDANELLE | 500 | 75.0% | 35.8% |
| BATESVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL CHARTER BATESVILLE | 690 | 67.8% | 36.6% |
| BERRYVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL BERRYVILLE | 421 | 66.5% | 39.2% |
| RUSSELLVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL RUSSELLVILLE | 795 | 66.3% | 37.2% |
| SILOAM SPRINGS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL SILOAM SPRINGS | 684 | 64.8% | 35.6% |
Matched among Arkansas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.4% | #157 of 207 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.5% | #150 of 208 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.2% | #163 of 208 ▲ 21 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 557 | #74 of 217 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #93 of 188 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.7% | #48 of 188 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.6% | #62 of 210 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.0% | #42 of 114 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
557
-17 (-3%) vs 2020
-31% since 1990-91, when it was 811
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 13.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 557 | 39.6 | 14.1:1 | 81% (449) |
| 2023-24 | 558 | 39.4 | 14.2:1 | 77% (431) |
| 2022-23 | 613 | 42.8 | 14.3:1 | 73% (449) |
| 2020-21 | 574 | 44 | 13.1:1 | 68% (389) |
| 2017-18 | 663 | 45 | 14.7:1 | 39% (261) |
| 2015-16 | 656 | 51 | 12.9:1 | 76% (497) |
| 2010-11 | 744 | 45 | 16.5:1 | 59% (439) |
| 2000-01 | 680 | 50 | 13.6:1 | 40% (272) |
| 1990-91 | 811 | 42 | 19.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL
BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL is a mid-sized middle school in VAN BUREN, Arkansas, (ZIP code 72956). Enrollment stands at 557 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts enrollment 20% above the 464-student average for middle schools in Arkansas.
BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL is among 11 schools run by VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT, which serves 5,703 students.
About 55% of the student body at BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL is White. Smaller groups are 31% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Black, and 2% Asian. County-wide, 81% of Crawford County residents are White. A diversity index of 59% means there is a 59% chance two randomly chosen students at BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL are from different groups.
The school had 39.6 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 14.1:1. The average for middle schools in Arkansas is about 13.9:1. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 81%. The rate at public schools in Crawford County averages 65%, lower than here.
Among Arkansas public middle schools, BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 24%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL is 2.5 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (27.4% versus 29.9%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Arkansas.
In Crawford County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $64,132 a year, roughly 20% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL, Crawford County has 23 public schools.
KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits about 0.5 miles from BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL comes in 7th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Mid-size: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL had a net loss of 17 students, or 3%. The ratio was 13.1:1 in 2020-21 and 14.1:1 in 2024-25.
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Crawford County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
61,139
Census ACS
Median income
$64,132
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
23
10,496 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT
- VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,232 students
- NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 713 students
- VAN BUREN FRESHMAN ACADEMYHigh · 468 students
- CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 466 students
- JAMES R. TATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 459 students
- OLIVER SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 441 students
Other schools in VAN BUREN
- VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,232 students
- NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 713 students
- VAN BUREN FRESHMAN ACADEMYHigh · 468 students
- CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 466 students
- JAMES R. TATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 459 students
- OLIVER SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 441 students
Nearby schools
- KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 437
- PARKVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 437
- CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 466
- VAN BUREN FRESHMAN ACADEMY1.4 mi · 468
- VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL1.5 mi · 1,232
- SPRADLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 307
Frequently asked questions
About BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 557 students in grades 06-08.
Is BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.1:1 students per teacher at BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 55% White, 31% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT in Crawford County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.