Summary:
ZIP code 28105 in Matthews, North Carolina, is served by a single public high school — Butler High School — which enrolls roughly 1,791 students in grades 9 through 12 and is part of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools district.
Butler High School is a large, economically diverse school where exactly half of the students (50.08%) qualify for free or reduced lunch. It has maintained a stable 60th-percentile ranking among North Carolina high schools for three consecutive years, including a 2025–2026 state rank of 267 out of 662 schools with a 3-star rating. Butler’s strongest academic results appear in math and science. In 2025–2026, Math I proficiency was 58.6% — about 16.5 percentage points above both district and state averages — while Biology proficiency reached 67.8%, outpacing district and state by more than 9 points. Math III was Butler’s absolute highest subject at 71.7% proficiency in the same year. Over two years of data, Butler exceeded the state average in 7 of 8 subject-year comparisons and beat the district in 6 of 8. The clear relative weakness is English II, where Butler’s 65.3% proficiency trailed the district’s 66.3% in 2025–2026 and only narrowly edged the state’s 64.6%.
Butler’s graduation rate is a notable strength at 92.3%, comfortably above the district’s 87.9% and the state’s 88.8%. However, chronic absenteeism stands out as the main concern: 31.7% of students were chronically absent in 2024–2025, exceeding district (26.8%) and state (24.2%) rates by roughly 5 and 7.5 percentage points respectively — meaning about one in three students misses substantial school time. This combination of a high graduation rate alongside elevated absenteeism is worth monitoring carefully. Overall, Butler High School offers above-average math and science performance, a solid graduation rate, and a balanced socioeconomic mix, with English II and student attendance as the key areas requiring attention.
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