Butler County Area Vocational Technical School

Butler County Area Vocational Technical School operates as an one-room-style secondary school in Butler, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Butler County Area Vocational-Technical School. Current enrollment sits at 26 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 96% smaller than the state mean of about 738.

Butler County Area Vocational-Technical School is the operating authority for Butler County Area Vocational Technical School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Demographically, Butler County Area Vocational Technical School records that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Butler County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 1.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Butler County's rate of about 37%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Butler County Area Vocational Technical School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 39.7%; actual is 20.2%, a gap of -19.5 points.

Across the wider county, Butler County reports that median household income runs about $89,843, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Butler County Area Vocational Technical School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Butler Area SHS, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Butler County Area Vocational Technical School. On composite proficiency, Butler County Area Vocational Technical School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 55.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

On this page, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.