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Best Middle Schools in Butner, NC


Summary:

The city of Butner, North Carolina, has only one middle school serving grades 6-8 - Butner-Stem Middle School. This school is part of the Granville County Schools district, which is ranked 181 out of 242 districts in the state and has a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Butner-Stem Middle School's performance has been declining over the past three years, with its statewide ranking dropping from 525 out of 773 middle schools in 2024-2025 to 582 out of 784 in 2022-2023. The school's proficiency rates on state standardized tests are generally below the district and state averages across all grade levels and subject areas, ranging from 36.2% to 60.3% in math and reading, compared to the state averages of 48.7% to 57.2% in math and 51.9% to 54.2% in reading. Additionally, the school's science proficiency rate for 8th grade is 51.1%, compared to the state average of 60.1%.

The school serves a predominantly low-income population, with 77.17% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2023-2024. The school's per-student spending for the 2018-2019 school year was $9,853, and the student-teacher ratio is 16.7 for the 2023-2024 school year, which may indicate that the school is not receiving adequate funding or resources to support student learning and development.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the North Carolina Dept of Public Instruction.

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