North Butler Elementary

North Butler Elementary is one of the intimate K-5 schools in Allison, Iowa, overseen by North Butler Comm School District, with 271 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6.

North Butler Comm School District runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 525 students. North Butler Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, North Butler Elementary reports that nearly all students (95%) are White. Beyond that, the school records 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 26% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, North Butler Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 78.8%; this one delivers 76.8%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Butler County) shows that median household earnings sit near $73,715, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Butler County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,120 students), North Butler Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Clarksville Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.2 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), North Butler Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 77.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at North Butler Elementary has contracted 28%, going from 376 students in 2018 to 271 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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