Schools in Zip Code 46721

ZIP code 46721 covers the Butler area in DeKalb County, Indiana, and has two schools, both in the DeKalb County Eastern Com School District: Butler Elementary School serves grades K–6 with 366 students, and Eastside Junior-Senior High School serves grades 7–12 with 559 students, together enrolling 925 students. The district is ranked 157th of 374 in Indiana, placing it in the 58th percentile with 3 stars, and the two schools serve different grade spans and assessments, so comparisons are contextual rather than perfectly like-for-like.

Eastside Junior-Senior High School is the stronger academic performer: it has 3 stars, a current rank of 196th of 415 (53rd percentile), a 98.8% graduation rate—9.1 points above Indiana's 89.7%—and middle-grade ILEARN results above state in 8th grade ELA (51.11% vs. 44%), 7th grade math (43.68% vs. 35.9%), and 8th grade math (43.33% vs. 34.2%). Butler Elementary School has 1 star and ranks 828th of 1015 (18th percentile), with all-grade ILEARN ELA at 19.82% and math at 25.23%, far below the district's 33.74% and 38.17%; its 5th grade math is just 6.52% and 5th grade ELA 13.04%, both versus about 42% statewide. Butler's offsetting strengths are attendance—chronic absenteeism is 11.0% vs. Eastside's 19.3%—and recent improvement: its rank rose from the 13th to 18th percentile, and all-grade math and science increased year over year.

Parents should note that Eastside Junior-Senior High School also has weaker SAT college-readiness results: SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing is 38.04% and SAT Math 18.48%, both below state, even as its ILEARN results improved. Butler Elementary School has the higher poverty indicator, with 68.31% free/reduced lunch vs. Eastside's 45.08%, and receives less per-student spending: $12,980 vs. $16,173, while its student-teacher ratio is slightly higher at 13.6 vs. 12.7. Overall, Eastside is the stronger performer in graduation and middle-grade ILEARN, while Butler is the academic priority despite better attendance and year-over-year gains; key questions are whether Butler's higher poverty and lower funding relate to lower achievement, and whether Eastside can turn its middle-school gains into stronger SAT performance.