Summary:
ZIP code 84121 has one middle school: Butler Middle, serving students in grades 6–8 in Salt Lake City. The school enrolls about 913 students and is part of the Canyons District. For families comparing middle-school options within the ZIP code, there is no school-to-school comparison to make, so the most useful information is Butler Middle’s academic performance, student support indicators, and results compared with district and state averages.
Butler Middle performed above both district and Utah averages in all nine reported subject-and-grade comparisons for 2025–2026. Science was the school’s clearest strength, with proficiency rates of 77.2% in sixth grade, 72.1% in seventh grade, and 82% in eighth grade. Eighth grade was the strongest overall, with 71.6% proficient in English Language Arts, 73% in Mathematics, and 82% in Science. The school’s average proficiency across the three subjects and grades was about 64.5%, compared with approximately 51.8% for the district and 45.5% statewide. The school also ranked in the 88th percentile statewide in 2025–2026, indicating consistently strong performance relative to other schools.
The main area to watch is sixth-grade Mathematics, where 38.3% of students were proficient—only slightly above the state rate and well below Butler’s seventh- and eighth-grade results. Even so, mathematics improved in seventh and eighth grades, while Science improved in every grade from the previous year. Butler also reported a 14.3% chronic absenteeism rate, lower than both the Canyons District rate of 18.8% and the Utah rate of 23.8%. Overall, the data portray a strong middle school, particularly for Science and upper-grade achievement, with sixth-grade Mathematics representing the clearest opportunity for additional support.
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