Butler Elementary School

Butler Elementary School is a primary school of average-sized scale in Savannah, Georgia, overseen by Savannah-Chatham County, works with 524 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Savannah-Chatham County comprises 58 schools with combined enrollment of 36,355 students; Butler Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Butler Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (82%). Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 39% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Chatham County's rate of about 74%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Butler Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.2%, the actual is 23.0%, a residual of -8.2 points.

In the broader community, census data for Chatham County shows median household earnings sit near $71,097, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Chatham County runs 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,380 students), of which Butler Elementary School is one.

Beach High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Butler Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 28.7%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Butler Elementary School's enrollment has declined 11% since 2018, when it stood at 592 (now 524). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 5% to 14% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.