Butteville Elementary, Weed CA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Butteville Elementary

Butteville Elementary serves kindergarten through eighth grade in Weed, a small mountain town at the base of Mount Shasta in Siskiyou County. The school sits on Edgewood Road in a rural setting and draws from a community shaped by timber heritage, tourism, and recent wildfire recovery.

The school enrolls a modest population of students across all grade bands, with about two in five qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is predominantly white, with smaller shares of Hispanic and multiracial students, and very few Asian, Black, or Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander enrollment. Data on students with disabilities and English learners was not reported and may reflect their small numbers or reporting practices.

Academic performance shows patterns typical of rural mountain schools in California. In English language arts, the school demonstrates strength particularly in eighth grade, where proficiency is notably higher than in middle grades. Grades three and four show above-midpoint proficiency in ELA, while grades five and six dip lower before recovering sharply in grade eight. Math proficiency is consistently lower across the tested grades, with fifth and sixth grades showing the weakest results. Science proficiency is uneven: fifth graders score well below benchmark, while eighth graders perform solidly. The eighth grade result is notable and suggests the school may be effective with students as they approach transition out of the building. Overall proficiency across all tested subjects and grades places Butteville in the top quartile among districts in Siskiyou County, though the absolute attainment levels are moderate when viewed statewide.

The school sits within a community experiencing significant economic transition. The Roseburg Forest Products veneer plant, a major regional employer, ceased operations at the end of 2025, eliminating a substantial number of jobs. Before that, the Mill Fire of September 2022 devastated Weed, destroying homes in the historically Black Lincoln Heights neighborhood and displacing families. Housing recovery has been a dominant priority, though affordable rebuilding has been constrained by insurance coverage gaps. The median home value in the Weed area is below state average, reflecting the rural setting, though the market has shown modest price stability. Health care, hospitality, and the College of the Siskiyous anchor local employment alongside what remains of manufacturing.

Butteville serves a community of school-age families whose economic circumstances are often constrained. Nearly four in ten students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The school itself appears stable; the district brief found no major recent shift in curriculum, pedagogy, or bond measures. The nearby Weed Library, located downtown, serves as a civic anchor, though library facilities faced potential transition in 2025 according to city council actions.

Families considering this school should understand it as a small-town K-8 where academic proficiency is mixed but where eighth graders show particular strength. The school exists within a community recovering from fire damage and navigating manufacturing job loss, so family stability and local economic conditions are part of the school's operating context. A parent may want to look into the school's specific strategies for supporting math proficiency in the middle grades and learn more directly about transition supports as students leave eighth grade.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 350%

School 50% · District 50%

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

Grade 447%

School 47% · District 47%

▲ 10 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Grade 533%

School 33% · District 33%

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Grade 637%

School 37% · District 37%

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

Grade 847%

School 47% · District 47%

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 26 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 355%

School 55% · District 55%

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 25 pts above county median

Grade 453%

School 53% · District 53%

▲ 11 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Grade 547%

School 47% · District 47%

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Grade 642%

School 42% · District 42%

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Grade 877%

School 77% · District 77%

▲ 32 pts above state median · ▲ 50 pts above county median

Science

Grade 523%

School 23% · District 23%

▼ 5 pts below state median · even with county median

Grade 865%

School 65% · District 65%

▲ 39 pts above state median · ▲ 47 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 871%

School 71% · District 71%

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 28 pts above county median

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Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.