LAKE BUTLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LAKE BUTLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a primary school of sprawling scale in LAKE BUTLER, Florida, part of UNION, enrolling 951 students in grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 57% larger than typical.

Across the 3 schools in UNION (2,309 students total), LAKE BUTLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LAKE BUTLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 75% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 11% Black, 11% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting LAKE BUTLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 53% of students at LAKE BUTLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, LAKE BUTLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.2%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Union County put median household earnings sit near $64,146, 11% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. LAKE BUTLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 6 public schools in Union County (combined enrollment of about 2,309 students).

Nearest neighbor: UNION COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LAKE BUTLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.5%.

LAKE BUTLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LAKE BUTLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has remained close to its prior level, going from 957 students in 2018 to 951 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 81% to 75% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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