Butler High School

As a low-enrollment 9-12 campus in BUTLER, New Jersey, Butler High School serves 482 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by Butler Public School District. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 929 students each, so Butler High School sits 48% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Butler Public School District, which oversees 3 schools and 1,156 students, Butler High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Butler High School logs that 62% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 32% Hispanic, 2% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, Butler High School reports 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. The state averages about 12.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Morris County's rate of about 19%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Butler High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.0%, the actual is 47.9%, a residual of -3.1 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Morris County indicate the typical household earns roughly $137,326 per year, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Morris County runs 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students), of which Butler High School is one.

Richard Butler School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Butler High School at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 52.6%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Butler High School has ticked down 3%, going from 499 students in 2018 to 482 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 81% to 62% across the same window.

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