Enrollment
259
Elementary
DISTRICT 359 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BUTLER AREA SD·NCES 420459001184
Summit Township Elementary School
351 Brinker Road, Butler, PA 16002 · (724) 287-8721 · Butler County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL259 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 63% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.1:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
246 students
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 75%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 42 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 30 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 46 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 39 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (42) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (39).
Student demographics
8%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 16% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Butler Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
39.4%
PA avg 51.1% . -13.1pp since 2023
Math
50.0%
PA avg 43.0% . -5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.4% | 50.0% |
| 2023-24 | 52.5% | 55.0% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
53.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Summit Township Elementary School
Summit Township Elementary School's state test result (53.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summit Township Elementary School this school | 259 | 95.0% | 53.4% |
| Choconut Valley Elementary School Friendsville | 251 | 94.8% | 67.7% |
| Strodes Mills Elementary School McVeytown | 254 | 98.8% | 52.1% |
| Coudersport Area Elementary School Coudersport | 265 | 98.9% | 64.4% |
| Oklahoma Elementary School DuBois | 296 | 95.3% | 65.5% |
| Northern Cambria Elementary School Northern Cambria | 262 | 99.6% | 52.2% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Summit Township Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Butler County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.4% | #775 of 1,396 | #16 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #795 of 1,511 ▼ 179 | #16 of 19 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.4% | #1,030 of 1,511 ▼ 179 | #19 of 19 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 259 | #1,376 of 1,638 | #18 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #445 of 1,528 | #5 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 8.2% | #1,460 of 1,531 | #16 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.0% | #574 of 1,600 | #6 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.6% | #395 of 450 | #10 of 10 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
259
+25 (+11%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 281
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 14.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 259 | 21.5 | 12.1:1 | 95% (246) |
| 2023-24 | 246 | 18 | 13.7:1 | 99% (243) |
| 2022-23 | 278 | 19.2 | 14.5:1 | 51% (142) |
| 2020-21 | 234 | 16 | 14.6:1 | 51% (120) |
| 2017-18 | 255 | 17.4 | 14.7:1 | 39% (99) |
| 2015-16 | 259 | 19 | 13.6:1 | 37% (96) |
| 2010-11 | 242 | 18 | 13.4:1 | 29% (69) |
| 2000-01 | 251 | 15 | 16.7:1 | 23% (58) |
| 1990-91 | 281 | 12 | 23.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Summit Township Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (255 to 259); teachers up 24% (17.4 to 21.5).
About Summit Township Elementary School
Summit Township Elementary School, located in Butler, Pennsylvania, is a low-enrollment elementary school. Enrollment stands at 259 students, covering kindergarten through 5. That is 42% below the average of about 443 students for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Summit Township Elementary School reports to Butler Area SD, which has 9 schools and 5,762 students.
Roughly 96% of students at Summit Township Elementary School are White. Other groups make up 3% multiracial. Butler County residents are about 93% White, a similar share. The diversity index for Summit Township Elementary School is 8%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 21.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 12.1 students per teacher. Compared with the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania, this school's ratio is lower. Roughly 95% of students at Summit Township Elementary School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 37% for public schools in Butler County.
Among Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Summit Township Elementary School outscored 63%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Summit Township Elementary School would score about 36.9%. It scores 53.4%, 16.5 points above that figure.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Butler County show that median household income comes to about $89,843, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. The county's public schools total 39, with about 24,616 students.
Measured in a straight line, McQuistion Elementary School is about 3.2 miles from Summit Township Elementary School. Around the school, 6 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Summit Township Elementary School ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Summit Township Elementary School is in rural territory close to an urban area, a location NCES labels Rural: Fringe.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was an 11% rise, from 234 to 259. Its ratio of students to teachers was 14.6:1 in 2020-21, and 12.1:1 in 2024-25.
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Butler County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
197,254
Census ACS
Median income
$89,843
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
39
24,616 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Butler Area SD
- Butler Area SHSHigh · 1,956 students
- Butler Area IHSMiddle · 1,291 students
- Center Township Elementary SchoolElementary · 584 students
- McQuistion Elementary SchoolElementary · 498 students
- Northwest Elementary SchoolElementary · 404 students
- Connoquenessing Elementary SchoolElementary · 287 students
Other schools in Butler
- Butler Area SHSHigh · 1,956 students
- Butler Area IHSMiddle · 1,291 students
- Center Township Elementary SchoolElementary · 584 students
- McQuistion Elementary SchoolElementary · 498 students
- Northwest Elementary SchoolElementary · 404 students
- Emily Brittain Elementary SchoolElementary · 255 students
Nearby schools
- McQuistion Elementary School3.2 mi · 498
- Emily Brittain Elementary School4.0 mi · 255
- Broad Street Elementary School4.2 mi · 228
- Butler Area IHS4.7 mi · 1,291
- Butler Area SHS4.9 mi · 1,956
- Butler County Area Vocational Technical School5.0 mi · 26
Frequently asked questions
About Summit Township Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Summit Township Elementary School?
Summit Township Elementary School enrolls approximately 259 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Summit Township Elementary School serve?
Summit Township Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Summit Township Elementary School?
Approximately 12.1:1 students per teacher at Summit Township Elementary School.
How diverse is Summit Township Elementary School?
Summit Township Elementary School reports a student body of 96% White, 1% Hispanic, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Summit Township Elementary School?
Summit Township Elementary School is overseen by Butler Area SD in Butler County.
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