Summary:
Zip code 74837 has one elementary school, Butner Elementary School, which serves prekindergarten through grade 8 and enrolls 157 students. With no other elementary schools in the area, families have no local school-to-school comparison. The most encouraging finding is that Butner’s results moved closer to state levels in all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, with math now above the state result.
Butner is both the area’s only school and its sole top and bottom performer; that does not establish how it compares with other nearby schools. Its clearest strength is math: 31% proficient in 2025–2026, 6 percentage points above the state’s 25% and 3 points above the Butner district’s 28%. ELA is the clearest relative weakness against the state, at 23% versus 26%, though it is 1 point above the district’s 22%. Science was 29%, 1 point below the state and 3 points above the district. SchoolDigger rates the school 1 star and ranks it 340th of 450, in the 24th percentile.
Scores rose in each subject between the two reported years: ELA increased from 19% to 23%, math from 23% to 31%, and science from 21% to 29%. The state’s results were unchanged in ELA and science and fell 1 point in math, so Butner’s state gaps improved in every subject. SchoolDigger’s historical rankings vary—from the 2nd percentile in 2010–2011 to the 49th in 2020–2021 and the current 24th—so they offer a mixed picture alongside the recent score gains. For context, the school reported 80% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025 and a student-teacher ratio of 16.8 that year; 2025–2026 chronic absenteeism was 15%, 1 point below the state and 2 points above the district. Two years of test results do not establish a lasting trend.
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