BUTLER EL

BUTLER EL is one of the mid-sized elementary schools in ARLINGTON, Texas, one of the schools within ARLINGTON ISD, with 610 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6.

Within ARLINGTON ISD, which oversees 75 schools and 53,394 students, BUTLER EL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, BUTLER EL reports that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 29% Hispanic, 10% Black, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, BUTLER EL has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 33% of students at BUTLER EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BUTLER EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.6%, the actual is 60.2%, a residual of +0.6 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Tarrant County put median household income runs about $84,207, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), BUTLER EL is one campus in the mix.

TURNING POINT SECONDARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BUTLER EL. On composite proficiency, BUTLER EL comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 3%: 627 students in 2018 compared to 610 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 59% to 50%.

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