Aaron Decker School

As a reasonably sized primary school in BUTLER, New Jersey, Aaron Decker School educates 383 students from grades pre-K through 4, operated by Butler Public School District.

Across the 3 schools in Butler Public School District (1,156 students total), Aaron Decker School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Aaron Decker School logs that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment. Other groups include 35% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 27% of students at Aaron Decker School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Morris County (around 19%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Aaron Decker School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.4%, the actual is 49.5%, a residual of -1.9 points.

Across the wider county, Morris County reports that the typical household earns roughly $137,326 per year, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. In all, Morris County runs 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students), of which Aaron Decker School is one.

Butler High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Aaron Decker School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.7%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Aaron Decker School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 380 (now 383). Over the same period, the White share declined from 71% to 57%.

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