Summary:
Butler, Ohio is home to just one public school: Butler Elementary School, a K–5 campus with 252 students on College Street, and there is no middle school, high school, or alternative school inside the city. The school belongs to the Clear Fork Valley Local district, which ranks 198th of 773 Ohio districts (74th percentile, 4 stars). Because Butler has only this one building, families have no in-city school-to-school comparison to make — the meaningful benchmarks are the district and the state as a whole.
The school's numbers are strong. In 2025–2026 it ranked 277th of 1,560 Ohio schools (82nd percentile) with 4 stars, up from the 60th percentile in 2023–24 and the 72nd in 2024–25 — a climb of 356 places in three years. All 14 test results across both years beat the Ohio average, and average proficiency was 80.8% in 2025–26 against a state average of about 63.8%, roughly a 17-point gap. Math runs ahead of English language arts, and the standout result is 5th-grade math at 85.1%, 26 points above the state. Attendance is a genuine strength: chronic absenteeism is 6.9% versus 10.2% district-wide. About 44.84% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and the student–teacher ratio is 12.8 to 1.
The clearest soft spot is 5th-grade science, which fell from 82.4% to 73.3% and is the only subject where the school trails its district (76.4%). Third-grade math also lags the district, by 7 points. In aggregate the school performs level with its district (80.8% vs. 80.7%) while beating the state sharply, so its gains look partly district-wide. Following the same students across years, the current 5th graders jumped from 72.0% to 85.1% in math and 64.6% to 82.2% in ELA between 4th and 5th grade. Note that per-student spending of $9,631 is from 2018–2019 and should not be tied to current results, and because no middle or high school appears in the data, there is no way to see how these students fare after 5th grade.
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