Butler Senior High School is located in Butler, Pennsylvania, USA and is part of the Butler Area School District. The school educates in grades 10-12 and is fed from Butler Intermediate High School.Academic achievementThe senior high school opened in 1917 in a three-story building located on East North street. The building connected beside it was the Junior and Intermediate High Schools.That building was closed as the senior high and became the Junior and Intermediate High in 1960 when a larger campus style building was built on a hillside located west on downtown Butler, this building was open in the fall of 1960. The school was ranked 37th out of 123 western Pennsylvania high schools, by the Pittsburgh Business Times in 2009, for academic achievement as reflected by three years of student results on: math, reading, writing and one year of science PSSAs.Graduation Rate: 2009 - 92% 2008 - 91% 2007 - 91%PSSA Results 11th Grade Reading 2009 - 70% on grade level. In Pennsylvania, 65% of 11th graders on grade level. 2008 - 68%, State - 65% 2007 - 74%, State - 65%11th Grade Math: 2009 - 70% on grade level. In Pennsylvania, 56% of 11th graders are on grade level. 2008 - 70%, State - 56% 2007 - 72%, State - 53%11th Grade Science: 2009 - 46% on grade level. State: 40% of 11th graders were on grade level. 2008 - 40%College remediationAccording to a Pennsylvania Department of Education study released in January 2009, 27% of Butler Senior High School graduates required remediation in mathematics and or reading before they were prepared to take college level courses in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education or community colleges. Less than 66% of Pennsylvania high school graduates, who enroll in a four-year college in Pennsylvania, will earn a bachelor's degree within six years. Among Pennsylvania high school graduates pursuing an associate degree, only one in three graduate in three years. Per the Pennsylvania Department of Education, one in three recent high school graduates who attend Pennsylvania's public universities and community colleges takes at least one remedial course in math, reading or English.
