Butner Es, Cromwell OK - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Butner Es

Butner ES serves students from prekindergarten through eighth grade in the rural town of Cromwell, Oklahoma. The school is part of the Butner district, and its small enrollment means that in several tested grades the number of students was low enough that state assessment results were suppressed to protect student privacy, making a full academic picture difficult to assemble.

Where proficiency data is available, the numbers point to an area a parent may want to look into further with the school. In fourth grade, roughly one in four students scored proficient or above in both math and reading. In fifth grade, about one in eight met that bar in reading, and a very small share did so in math. Sixth-grade math showed a similarly low result, while seventh-grade math was closer to a third of students proficient. Eighth-grade math and reading each came in around one in five. Science results, reported for fifth grade, were very low. On a proficiency index that averages across all tested subjects and grades, Butner ES landed above the midpoint relative to other districts in Seminole County, though the range across the county’s districts is narrow.

The student body is diverse, with a significant share identifying as American Indian or Alaska Native and a substantial share identifying as two or more races. White students make up the largest single group. The school does not serve high school grades, so no graduation rate is reported, and data on economic disadvantage, special education, and English learner status was not available.

Cromwell itself is a very small, car-dependent town that was founded as an oil-boom settlement and never recovered its early-twentieth-century population after a devastating fire. Today its employed residents work mainly in accommodation, administrative services, and health care, likely outside the town itself. Homeownership rates are high, property values remain low, and the town has experienced long-term population decline, though recent estimates suggest a modest uptick. The town has few civic anchors—no parks or public transit are mentioned in available sources—and its economy does not support a large local job base.

For families considering Butner ES, the school offers a small, rural environment where a child can attend from pre-K through the end of middle school without changing schools. The academic performance data available is low, and the small cohort sizes make year-to-year comparisons unreliable. A parent may want to ask the school about recent instructional supports, how it addresses the academic challenges the reported results suggest, and what the experience is for students who move on to high school after eighth grade.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 423%

School 23% · District 23%

▼ 6 pts below state median

Grade 67%

School 7% · District 7%

▼ 11 pts below state median

Grade 732%

School 32% · District 32%

▲ 12 pts above state median

Grade 818%

School 18% · District 18%

▲ 5 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 423%

School 23% · District 23%

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

Grade 513%

School 13% · District 13%

▼ 9 pts below state median

Grade 720%

School 20% · District 20%

even with state median

Grade 824%

School 24% · District 24%

▲ 6 pts above state median

Science

Grade 56%

School 6% · District 6%

▼ 18 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below 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.