The top reported proficiency rate is 0% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Butte High School
Butte High School is a large comprehensive high school serving grades nine through twelve in a historic mining city consolidated with Silver Bow County. The school sits within the Uptown area of Butte, a city where headframes and former mining operations are woven directly into residential neighborhoods. The student body is sizable for a Montana high school, with an enrollment distributed fairly evenly across all four grade levels. The student population is predominantly white, with a modest share of Hispanic students and smaller representations of students who identify as American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Black, and multiracial.
About two-fifths of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, giving the school a mid-level economic profile that reflects the working-class, industrial character of the community. Butte retains a strong connection to its copper mining heritage through employers like Montana Resources, which operates the Continental Mine, and through civic anchors such as the Uptown Historic District, the World Museum of Mining, and Montana Technological University. The Berkeley Pit, a former open-pit copper mine and part of the nation’s largest Superfund site, sits adjacent to the Uptown district and shapes the built environment. The city sits at the intersection of Interstates 90 and 15 on the Continental Divide, making it a regional crossroads. Housing in Butte is notably more affordable than the state average, and rental costs reflect a similar pattern, which may matter for families weighing home-buying against renting.
State testing data for high school grade levels was not available in this dataset. The testing results that were reported cover grades three through eight, which this school does not serve. This means there is no direct evidence in the data to characterize the school’s academic proficiency in reading, math, or science at the high school level. A parent would want to ask the school directly about its performance on the assessments given to eleventh graders, as well as about measures such as graduation rate, which was also missing from this data. The comparison to other districts in Silver Bow County, which placed the school in a bottom quartile for proficiency, is based on that same grades three through eight testing data and therefore does not apply to this high school’s actual instruction or student results.
No information was available about course offerings, including Advanced Placement, dual credit, career and technical education pathways, or specialized programs. Similarly, staffing data, discipline data, chronic absenteeism rates, and civil rights data were not part of what was provided. The district, Butte H S, did not have any recent parent-relevant changes surfaced in the search.
Butte High School serves the full range of the community’s secondary students in a consolidated city-county setting. For parents choosing a school, the main open questions center on academic outcomes and program breadth at the high school level, neither of which the available records address. A visit to the school and a conversation with administrators about curriculum, college and career readiness offerings, and graduation outcomes would fill in the picture that this data leaves blank.
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