Enrollment
328
Elementary
DISTRICT 320 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORT DODGE COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 191182000720
Butler Elementary School
945 South 18th Street, Fort Dodge, IA 50501 · (515) 574-5882 · Webster County
GRADES 01–05ELEMENTARY33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL328 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 4% of Iowa public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Iowa public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
216 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | 72 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 21% |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 20% |
This year's 1st grade class (72) is 11% larger than its 5th grade class (65).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 48% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Fort Dodge Comm School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
45.4%
IA avg 73.6% . -0.3pp since 2023
Math
47.5%
IA avg 70.9% . -0.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.4% | 47.5% |
| 2023-24 | 45.7% | 48.1% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
45.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.0%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 59% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Butler Elementary School
Butler Elementary School's state test result (45.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Butler Elementary School this school | 328 | 65.9% | 45.9% |
| Roosevelt Elementary School Mason City | 348 | 60.6% | 64.4% |
| Bluff Elementary School Clinton | 372 | 63.4% | 68.7% |
| Poyner Elementary Evansdale | 362 | 59.9% | 64.4% |
| Jefferson Elementary School Clinton | 376 | 69.7% | 52.5% |
| Lincoln Elementary School Charles City | 280 | 61.4% | 59.1% |
Matched among Iowa elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Butler Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Webster County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.9% | #527 of 564 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.5% | #530 of 564 ▼ 2 | N/A |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.4% | #532 of 564 ▼ 10 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 328 | #323 of 705 | #4 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #251 of 561 | #2 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.1% | #176 of 561 | #3 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.9% | #96 of 666 | #2 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.5% | #27 of 359 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
328
-90 (-22%) vs 2020
+22% since 1990-91, when it was 268
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 15.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 328 | 24.8 | 13.3:1 | 66% (216) |
| 2023-24 | 344 | 26.7 | 12.9:1 | 69% (238) |
| 2022-23 | 379 | 29.4 | 12.9:1 | 77% (290) |
| 2020-21 | 418 | 27 | 15.5:1 | 71% (296) |
| 2017-18 | 479 | 34.4 | 13.9:1 | 75% (359) |
| 2015-16 | 484 | 31 | 15.6:1 | 74% (359) |
| 2010-11 | 355 | 24 | 14.8:1 | 67% (238) |
| 2000-01 | 248 | 14 | 17.7:1 | 71% (175) |
| 1990-91 | 268 | 15 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Butler Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 32% (479 to 328); teachers down 28% (34.4 to 24.8).
About Butler Elementary School
Butler Elementary School, located in Fort Dodge, Iowa, is a mid-sized elementary school. It reported 328 students in grades 1 through 5 in 2024-25.
The 7 schools in Fort Dodge Comm School District enroll 3,385 students altogether, Butler Elementary School among them.
More than half of the students at Butler Elementary School are White (64%). The rest of enrollment is 15% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, and 8% Black. Census figures show Webster County is about 86% White. The diversity index for Butler Elementary School is 55%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
A staff of 24.8 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 13.3:1. The 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Iowa is close to this figure. By family income, 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Webster County averages 50%, lower than here.
Among Iowa public elementary schools, Butler Elementary School outscored 4%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
Butler Elementary School scores 13.1 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results: 45.9% actual versus 59.0% predicted. That puts it in the bottom 10% of Iowa schools on BeatsExpectations.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Webster County show that the median household earns about $68,975 a year, about 22% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Across Webster County, 12 public schools serve about 4,678 students.
Butler Elementary School's nearest public school is Early Childhood Center (about 0.7 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are 6 other public schools. On average proficiency, Butler Elementary School is 5th of 7 nearby schools with test data.
NCES describes the area around Butler Elementary School as Town: Remote, meaning in a town far from an urbanized area.
The school's student count decreased 22% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. By 2024-25, the school had 13.3 students per teacher, compared with 15.5 in 2020-21.
People can post here about special education services, counseling, and support programs and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Webster County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
36,886
Census ACS
Median income
$68,975
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
12
4,678 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fort Dodge Comm School District
- Fort Dodge High SchoolHigh · 1,020 students
- Fort Dodge Middle SchoolMiddle · 765 students
- Duncombe Elementary SchoolElementary · 438 students
- Early Childhood CenterElementary · 376 students
- Cooper Elementary SchoolElementary · 231 students
- Feelhaver Elementary SchoolElementary · 227 students
Other schools in Fort Dodge
- Fort Dodge High SchoolHigh · 1,020 students
- Fort Dodge Middle SchoolMiddle · 765 students
- Duncombe Elementary SchoolElementary · 438 students
- Early Childhood CenterElementary · 376 students
- Cooper Elementary SchoolElementary · 231 students
- Feelhaver Elementary SchoolElementary · 227 students
Other Butler Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 8 states are named Butler Elementary. Butler Elementary School is the 7th largest of the 8.
- Butler Elementary SchoolChalfont, PA · 757 students
- Butler Elementary SchoolARLINGTON, TX · 610 students
- Butler Elementary SchoolSavannah, GA · 524 students
- BUTLER ELEM.BUTLER, MO · 410 students
- Butler Elementary SchoolSpringfield, IL · 367 students
Nearby schools
- Early Childhood Center0.7 mi · 376
- Duncombe Elementary School1.2 mi · 438
- Fort Dodge High School1.4 mi · 1,020
- Fort Dodge Middle School1.7 mi · 765
- Cooper Elementary School1.8 mi · 231
- Feelhaver Elementary School2.0 mi · 227
Frequently asked questions
About Butler Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Butler Elementary School?
Butler Elementary School enrolls approximately 328 students in grades 01-05.
Is Butler Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Butler Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades 01-05.
How many teachers does Butler Elementary School have?
Butler Elementary School employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.3:1.
How diverse is Butler Elementary School?
Butler Elementary School reports a student body of 64% White, 15% Hispanic, 8% Black, 1% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Is Butler Elementary School public or private?
Butler Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Fort Dodge Comm School District.
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