Summary:
Butler, Indiana is home to just one high school: Eastside Junior-Senior High School, a 7–12 building at 603 E Green St with 559 students. It belongs to the DeKalb County Eastern Com School District, which ranks 157th of 374 Indiana districts (58th percentile) with a 3-star rating. Because Eastside is the only high school in the city, everything below describes this single school rather than a comparison among local options.
Eastside's clearest strength is completion: its 2024–2025 graduation rate was 98.8%, matching the district and far above Indiana's 89.7% — a 9.1-point advantage. On 2025–2026 ILEARN tests, the school outperformed its district in every reported subject, including all-grade ELA (44.07% vs. 33.74%), all-grade math (43.5% vs. 38.17%), and Biology end-of-course (60.92% vs. 58.24%). Middle-grade math is a bright spot against the state: 7th-grade math at 43.68% vs. 35.9%, and 8th-grade math at 43.33% vs. 34.2%. Eighth-grade ELA (51.11% vs. 44%) also beats the state. Biology proficiency jumped from 46.88% to 60.92% year over year, and the student-teacher ratio is a favorable 12.7, with per-student spending of $16,173 and 45.08% of students receiving free or reduced lunch.
The concerns are concentrated at the high school level. SAT results fell sharply in 2025–2026: Evidence-based Reading and Writing dropped to 38.04% (state: 51.9%) and Mathematics to 18.48% (state: 25.6%), declines of 11.42 and 10.55 points respectively. Chronic absenteeism was 19.3% in 2024–2025, above both the district (14.6%) and state (16.7%) — roughly one in five students. 7th-grade ELA is the only ILEARN measure below the state (36.78% vs. 41.7%). School rank has also been volatile: 48th percentile in 2023–2024, 67th in 2024–2025, and 53rd in 2025–2026, still above median and 3-star rated.
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