Broad Street El Sch
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
About Broad Street El Sch
Broad Street El Sch operates as an intimate K-5 school in Butler, Pennsylvania, operated by Butler Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 228 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 49% below the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.
Broad Street El Sch is one of 9 schools operated by Butler Area SD, a district that teaches 5,762 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Broad Street El Sch shows that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 11% multiracial, 9% Black, 5% Hispanic. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 93%.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Butler County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Broad Street El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.3%; this one delivers 38.2%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Butler County indicate the typical household earns roughly $89,843 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Butler County runs 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,616 students), of which Broad Street El Sch is one.
Nearest neighbor: Emily Brittain El Sch, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Broad Street El Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Broad Street El Sch at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 52.7%.
Broad Street El Sch operates from a small-town location.
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