On February 13, 2014 the Lake Elsinore Unified School District Board of Trustees voted to hire an architectural firm and construction company for the rebuilding of Butterfield. It was expected that some primary grades would return to the rebuilt campus by the fall of 2015, and the remainder of students up through 6th grade would return for the 2016/17 school year. However, after investigation by the planning and architectural firms, it was decided that reconstruction costs would be too high to deal with possible seismic refits and the plan to reopen the school has been cancelled. The idea of a Butterfield Renaissance appears to now be dead.