Butler, Kansas
Butler County is a certified Work Ready Community that is actively engaged in maintaining their status.
Showing: Jan 1, 2012 to Apr 30, 2025
Goals updated only for participating counties
Status History:
Certified: Mar 2023
Maintained 1: Feb 2025
Hover over the chart to see how they received their points.
Progress Towards Goals
Butler is actively engaged in maintaining their status as a Work Ready Community. To do so, they must earn 5 points that prove their ongoing commitment to developing a thriving economy for employers and employees.
Traditional goals 3 Points
Maximum of 4 points possible
Current Goal - 1 points
Emerging Goal - 1 points
Transitioning Goal - 1 points
Optional goals 0 Points
Maximum of 3 points possible
Butler County in the News
ACT WorkKeys National Career Readiness Certificate [NCRC]
Workforce | Total NCRC |
Bronze NCRC |
Silver NCRC |
Gold NCRC |
Platinum NCRC |
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Emerging | High School | 1842 | 574 | 692 | 374 | 202 |
College | 56 | + | 16 | 26 | 10 | |
Current | Private | 891 | 79 | 328 | 350 | 134 |
Public | 358 | 68 | 158 | 108 | 24 | |
Transitioning | Adult Education | 17 | 5 | 9 | + | 0 |
Unemployed | 1230 | 208 | 526 | 386 | 110 | |
Recent Veteran | 16 | 0 | + | 6 | 0 | |
Workforce category not identified | 24 | + | + | 5 | + | |
Totals | 4414 | 941 | 1733 | 1258 | 482 |
Workforce | Total NCRC |
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Emerging | High School | 1842 | 574 | 692 | 374 | 202 |
College | 56 | + | 16 | 26 | 10 | |
Current | Private | 891 | 79 | 328 | 350 | 134 |
Public | 358 | 68 | 158 | 108 | 24 | |
Transitioning | Adult Education | 17 | 5 | 9 | + | 0 |
Unemployed | 1230 | 208 | 526 | 386 | 110 | |
Recent Veteran | 16 | 0 | + | 6 | 0 | |
Workforce category not identified | 24 | + | + | 5 | + | |
Totals | 4414 | 941 | 1733 | 1258 | 482 |
The table above is a detailed breakdown of the same ACT WorkKeys NCRC data presented in the upper right box on this page and represents ACT WorkKeys NCRCs earned or improved throughout the community. All ACT WorkKeys NCRC data is updated monthly.
+ Value less than 4
ACT WorkKeys NCRCs Earned
Showing: Jan 1, 2012 to Apr 30, 2025
Workforce | Goals | Actual NCRC |
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✓ Emerging | 1272 | 1898 |
✓
Current |
741 | 1249 |
✓ Transitioning | 972 | 1255 |
Workforce category not identified | 12 | 12 |
Workforce | Total |
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Employers Supporting | 70 |
Improved ACT NCRC
To/From | Bronze | Silver | Gold | Platinum |
---|---|---|---|---|
Not Earned | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Bronze | 4 | 1 | 0 | |
Silver | 14 | 1 | ||
Gold | 1 |
Service Delivery Locations
These are the locations in Butler County where a job seeker can take the WorkKeys test.
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El Dorado, Inc
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The Butler County ACT Team
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Butler Community College
Participating High Schools
These Butler County high schools help students prepare for and take the WorkKeys test.
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Andover USD 385
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Augusta USD 402
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Circle USD 375
Employers in Butler County recognize or recommend the ACT WorkKeys NCRC
- Augusta Chamber of Commerce
- Thrive! Butler
- Drs Joyce & Hursh LLC
- Gravity : : Works Architecture
- El Dorado TrueCare Pharmacy
Graphic Concepts Inc
JRS Rental & Sales
Briggs Construction Inc.
Kansas Mobile Throne
- Citizens Bank of Kansas
- Russell Marine Products
- Sevenfold
- SunGroup Real Estate and Appraisals
- BG Products Inc. | Distribution Center
- Bob Bergkamp Construction Inc
- El Dorado Public Schools USD 490
Administration Office - Rainbows United Inc
- INTRUST Bank
- Good To Be Clean
- Velocity
- City of Augusta
- WheatLand Construction
- City of Rose Hill
- Douglass City Hall
- Seven K Company
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