Butler High School | |
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Location | |
38 Bartholdi Avenue Butler, NJ 07405 |
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Information | |
Type | Public high school |
Established | 1905 |
School district | Butler Public Schools |
Principal | Martin Wall |
Vice principal | Kevin Kelly |
Faculty | 45.5 FTEs |
Grades | 9-12 |
Enrollment | 475 (as of 2014-15) |
Student to teacher ratio | 10.4:1 |
Color(s) |
Royal blue and Gold |
Athletics conference | Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference |
Team name | Bulldogs |
Website | www |
Butler High School is a four-year public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Butler, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Butler Public Schools.
Students from Bloomingdale attend Butler High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Bloomingdale School District.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 475 students and 45.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.4:1. There were 66 students (13.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 23 (4.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The Academy for Law and Public Safety is a full-time, four-year high school program located at Butler High School. The Academy focuses on Law, Government and Public Affairs with concentrations in Law, Criminal Justice, Technology, Humanities and Law Enforcement. The Academy was founded in September 2000, as a collaborative effort of the Morris County Vocational School District, the Butler Public Schools and the Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders.
The school was the 162nd-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 94th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 176th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 123rd in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 116th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school as 224th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (an increase of 14 positions from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).