Butts Road Intermediate

Set in Chesapeake, Virginia, Butts Road Intermediate is a reasonably sized elementary campus, part of Chesapeake City Public Schools. It enrolls 579 students across grades 3 through 5.

Chesapeake City Public Schools runs 45 schools in total, collectively educating 40,607 students. Butts Road Intermediate is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Butts Road Intermediate logs that 78% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 8% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Asian. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 13% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Chesapeake city (around 49%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Butts Road Intermediate performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 84.6%, the actual is 87.5%, a residual of +2.9 points.

Around the school, census data for Chesapeake city shows median household earnings sit near $95,373, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Chesapeake city runs 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 40,607 students), of which Butts Road Intermediate is one.

Nearest neighbor: Butts Road Primary, around 1.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Butts Road Intermediate at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 84.3%.

Butts Road Intermediate operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Butts Road Intermediate has shrank 12%, going from 657 students in 2018 to 579 in 2025.

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