Butler High School

Set in Matthews, North Carolina, Butler High School is a high-enrollment 9-12 campus, overseen by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. It instructs 1,791 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 761 students each, so Butler High School sits 135% above that benchmark.

Butler High School is one of 186 schools operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, a district that caters to 145,014 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Butler High School records that 31% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 30% Black, 28% White, 8% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 98 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting Butler High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Mecklenburg County (around 71%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Butler High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.5%, the actual is 51.3%, a residual of -12.3 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Mecklenburg County put median household income runs about $87,005, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Butler High School is one of 226 public schools in Mecklenburg County (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students).

The closest other public school is Levine Middle College High Sch, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Butler High School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 64.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 2,121 students in 2018 compared to 1,791 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 36% to 28% across the same window.

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