North Butler Elementary

Located at 5539 Brownsville Rd, in Morgantown, Kentucky, North Butler Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school that hosts 406 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Butler County.

Within Butler County, which oversees 6 schools and 2,219 students, North Butler Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, North Butler Elementary records that nearly all students (90%) are White. The remainder consists of 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, North Butler Elementary has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. About 58% 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 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.4%, the actual is 32.3%, a residual of -11.0 points.

In the surrounding community, Butler County reports that median household income runs about $56,092, roughly 10% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. North Butler Elementary is one of 7 public schools in Butler County (combined enrollment of about 2,219 students).

Morgantown Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.9 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, North Butler Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.3%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 11%: 457 students in 2018 compared to 406 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 97% to 90% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

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