BOYD COUNTY ELEMENTARY (BUTTE)

BOYD COUNTY ELEMENTARY (BUTTE) is a rural-scale elementary campus in BUTTE, Nebraska, run under BOYD COUNTY SCHOOLS. The school teaches 68 students in grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 272 students per school, that is 75% below typical.

BOYD COUNTY SCHOOLS runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 305 students. BOYD COUNTY ELEMENTARY (BUTTE) is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, BOYD COUNTY ELEMENTARY (BUTTE) lists that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, BOYD COUNTY ELEMENTARY (BUTTE) lists 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BOYD COUNTY ELEMENTARY (BUTTE) performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.4%, the actual is 66.9%, a residual of +5.5 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Boyd County) records that the typical household earns roughly $67,045 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. BOYD COUNTY ELEMENTARY (BUTTE) is one of 4 public schools in Boyd County (combined enrollment of about 305 students).

Nearest neighbor: BOYD COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOL (SPENCER), around 7.7 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BOYD COUNTY ELEMENTARY (BUTTE) ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 38.9%.

BOYD COUNTY ELEMENTARY (BUTTE) operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. BOYD COUNTY ELEMENTARY (BUTTE)'s enrollment has shrank 49% since 2018, when it stood at 134 (now 68). Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 8.0:1 in 2025.

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