The Butler Area School District is a very large school district in western Pennsylvania. It encompasses approximately 144sqmi and covers the City of Butler, the Boroughs of Connoquenessing and East Butler and Butler Township, Center Township, Clearfield Township, Connoquenessing Township, Oakland Township and Summit Township. The district has six elementary schools (grades K - 4th), one junior high school (5th-6th), one intermediate high school (7th-9th), and one senior high school (10th - 12th). The 2006 enrollment for elementary students is 4310 students and for secondary schools is 3946 students.Butler Area School District was ranked 147th out of the 498 ranked Pennsylvania School Districts in 2008 by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on student academic performance as demonstrated in 3 years of PSSA results.Academic achievementButler Area School District was ranked 45th out of 105 western Pennsylvania school districts in 2009 by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on three years of student academic performance on the PSSAs for math, reading, writing and one year of science. In 2008 the school ranked 41st of 105 high schools. && ilyssm mdgj The district was ranked 147th out of the 498 ranked Pennsylvania School Districts in 2008 by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on student academic performance as demonstrated in 3 years of PSSA results.
