Butler Elementary School

Butler Elementary School is a primary school of compact scale in Butler, Indiana, operated by DeKalb Co Eastern Com Sch Dist, instructing 366 students in grades K through 6.

DeKalb Co Eastern Com Sch Dist comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,244 students; Butler Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Butler Elementary School logs that nearly all students (91%) are White. The remainder comes out to 6% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with DeKalb County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than DeKalb County's rate of about 49%.

After controlling for student poverty, Butler Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.2%, the actual is 19.5%, a residual of -7.7 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for DeKalb County put median household earnings sit near $74,331, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, DeKalb County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,781 students), of which Butler Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Eastside Junior-Senior High School, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Butler Elementary School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 38.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Butler Elementary School has shrank 12%, going from 416 students in 2018 to 366 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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