Pat Butler Elementary

Pat Butler Elementary is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary-level communitys in Paso Robles, California, one of the schools within Paso Robles Joint Unified, with 472 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Within Paso Robles Joint Unified, which oversees 12 schools and 6,902 students, Pat Butler Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Pat Butler Elementary records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 38% White, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Pat Butler Elementary logs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 27.8:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 60% of students at Pat Butler Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Pat Butler Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.5%, the actual is 42.4%, a residual of -1.1 points.

Around the school, San Luis Obispo County reports that the typical household earns roughly $97,446 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Pat Butler Elementary is one of 83 public schools in San Luis Obispo County (combined enrollment of about 33,339 students).

The closest other public school is Liberty High (Continuation), roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pat Butler Elementary. On composite proficiency, Pat Butler Elementary comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 33.2%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Pat Butler Elementary's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 465 (now 472). White enrollment moved from 55% to 38% across the same window.

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