Butler High School

Located at 2011 Lumpkin Rd, in Augusta, Georgia, Butler High School is a compact four-year high school that serves 878 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Richmond County. Compared to the state average of about 1,120 students per school, that is 22% below typical.

Butler High School is one of 52 schools operated by Richmond County, a district that serves 30,573 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Butler High School lists that 88% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest looks like 6% Hispanic, 4% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Richmond County as a whole is about 56% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Butler High School higher than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Butler High School is in the bottom 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 25.7%; Butler High School posts 3.0%, -22.7 points below that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Richmond County put the typical household earns roughly $55,637 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Richmond County's 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,674 students), Butler High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Dorothy Hains Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Butler High School at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 16.9%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 4%: 911 students in 2018 compared to 878 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.

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