Northwest El Sch

Set in Butler, Pennsylvania, Northwest El Sch is a mid-sized elementary campus, operated by Butler Area SD. It instructs 404 students across grades K through 5.

Butler Area SD runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 5,762 students. Northwest El Sch is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Northwest El Sch records that nearly all students (94%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Northwest El Sch has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 104% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Butler County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Northwest El Sch is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 33.0%; this one delivers 72.7%, a residual of +39.6 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Butler County shows median household earnings sit near $89,843, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Northwest El Sch is one of 39 public schools in Butler County (combined enrollment of about 24,616 students).

Nearest neighbor: Butler County Area Vocational Technical School, around 1.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Northwest El Sch comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.4%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 21%: 335 students in 2018 compared to 404 in 2025.

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