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Arthur C. Butler Elementary
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% typical for California 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 California's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Arthur C. Butler Elementary
Arthur C. Butler Elementary is a K-5 school of high-enrollment scale in Elk Grove, California, one of the schools within Elk Grove Unified, teacheing 949 students in grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 104% larger than typical.
Arthur C. Butler Elementary is one of 67 schools operated by Elk Grove Unified, a district that serves 63,232 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Arthur C. Butler Elementary lists that the largest single group is Asian at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 25% Hispanic, 12% White, 9% Black, 8% multiracial. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.
Looking at school resources, The school lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Arthur C. Butler Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Arthur C. Butler Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.2%.
Around the school, Sacramento County reports that median household income runs about $92,175, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Arthur C. Butler Elementary is one of 387 public schools in Sacramento County (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students).
Nearest neighbor: Sheldon High, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Arthur C. Butler Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.6%.
Arthur C. Butler Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.
Over the past 7-year window. Arthur C. Butler Elementary's enrollment has expanded 8% since 2018, when it stood at 877 (now 949). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 19% to 25%.
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