Rock L Butler MS

Rock L Butler MS is one of the intimate middle schools in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Wellsboro Area SD, with 433 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8. That puts it 27% smaller than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 594 students.

Within Wellsboro Area SD, which oversees 4 schools and 1,372 students, Rock L Butler MS is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rock L Butler MS logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). The remainder looks like 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Tioga County runs at roughly 73%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Rock L Butler MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.1%, the actual is 59.8%, a residual of +5.7 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Tioga County shows median household income runs about $64,899, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Tioga County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,053 students), Rock L Butler MS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Wellsboro Area HS, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Rock L Butler MS. On composite proficiency, Rock L Butler MS comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 47.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Rock L Butler MS's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 438 (now 433). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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