Pat Butler Elementary School

700 Nicklaus Street

School District

Paso Robles Joint Unified
Grade

K-5
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:22
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by parent on July 19, 2023

The principal at this school has made the lives of many kids and their families a nightmare. Megen Guffey is extremely rigid and focused on the importance of her role and not on supporting the needs of the kids, especially those with special needs, accommodations, or differences. Inflexible and harsh, we found it almost impossible to have a conversation with her about the challenges our child was having in the second year at this school. She kept circling back to the school policy, rules, official procedure, and seemed unable to think creatively about how we might offer additional help for our child while keeping them in school. We know PR is a conservative district, but we still expected at least the principal to be supportive of all differences in a child. While the teachers have been great, the principal even seemed to exhibit bias and prejudice toward a child with gender identity differences in the way she spoke. While discussing our experience with other parents, we heard several similar stories. I hope she is removed from her position and not permitted to work with children any more.
Submitted by parent on April 06, 2020

Hands down best school I've been to yet. The teachers cared and made sure their students were meeting expectations, their students were at, and the staff was very friendly and I'm sure every child who was behind eventually thrived thanks to PB. Pat Butler also had really good school food and I loved the computer lab we would go to. Best school I went to was here. I highly recommend this school to ANYONE with a child with low marks.
Submitted by parent on July 08, 2019

My children had great improvements because of this school and it’s staff.
Submitted by parent on May 07, 2019

Horrible school would do research before having your children attend
Submitted by parent on August 20, 2018

We have been at Pat Butler for 5 years now, it is an excellent school. They have a strong curriculum and dedicated teachers and administrators. The school teaches good behavior to its students and reinforces strong character principles every day. We were sad to see Mrs. Halic leave as principal but Mr. Capalare is doing an outstanding job, the kids love him. Thank you Pat Butler!
Submitted by parent on December 27, 2017

We were new to this school last year and the leadership is amazing!!! They truly cared about our children’s adjustment on all levels: personal, emotional and academics. We have phenomenal Teachers this year and feel so fortunate. I love the sense of family and community at the school.
Submitted by parent on February 22, 2016

We have found the teachers and admin staff at this school to be dedicated and knowledgeable. There is an incredible level of parental involvement at the school as well, from a solid PTA to a lot of volunteering in the classroom. We also like the afterschool program, PRYDE, being on the campus.
Submitted by parent on August 20, 2012

Butler USED to be Paso's top elem school...no longer. Principal for past 5 yrs is a mean, bossy, inconsistent tyrant. And no, I'm not exaggerating! Ask any teacher or parent and they'd LOVE to get a new principal on that small campus!! Overall, morale and school spirit are down. Staff & teachers seem bummed and that trickles down into the classroom. We've had multiple kids there & loved every teacher but it's like there's a dark cloud over that school. No longer a neighborhood school since kids from all over Paso are bussed in. Butler's lost its community school feeling and is even a program improvement school which isn't good news for parents. Again, we had great, hard-working teachers who really CARED about our kids. Front office clerk always calls you "dear" and "sweetie"; she's an angel. And Kinder teacher Mrs. W is amazing (as a previoius reviewer said) . But Butler's principal H would be better suited as a prison warden, not an elem school principal. Oh--and the review from '09 that says no bullies at Butler...well, that's outdated!! The problem is that there ARE bullies (like at any school) but the principal doesnt do anything!