Richard Butler School

Richard Butler School, a compact middle-grades school in BUTLER, New Jersey, run under Butler Public School District, serves 291 students, covering grades 5 through 8. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 578 students each, so Richard Butler School sits 50% leaner than that benchmark.

Butler Public School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,156 students. Richard Butler School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Richard Butler School shows that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 35% Hispanic, 2% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

On the resource side, On paper, Richard Butler School has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.9:1 average. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Morris County (around 19%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Richard Butler School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.4%, the actual is 48.3%, a residual of +0.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, Morris County reports that the typical household earns roughly $137,326 per year, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Morris County runs 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students), of which Richard Butler School is one.

The closest other public school is Butler High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Richard Butler School at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 53.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 289 students in 2018 compared to 291 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 13% to 35% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 today.

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