Butler Area IHS

Butler Area IHS is one of the big middle schools in Butler, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Butler Area SD, with 1,291 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 117% larger than the state mean of about 594.

Within Butler Area SD, which oversees 9 schools and 5,762 students, Butler Area IHS is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Butler Area IHS reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%); the rest comes out to 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 2% Black. Compared to Butler County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 109 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Around 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Butler County's rate of about 37%.

After controlling for student poverty, Butler Area IHS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.1%.

Around the school, Butler County reports that the typical household earns roughly $89,843 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Butler County's 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,616 students), Butler Area IHS is one campus in the mix.

Butler County Area Vocational Technical School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Butler Area IHS comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 51.0%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Butler Area IHS has edged down 15%, going from 1,511 students in 2018 to 1,291 in 2025.

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