Gen George Patton Elem School

Gen George Patton Elem School, a modestly sized elementary-level community in Riverdale, Illinois, one of the schools within Gen George Patton SD 133, enrolls 184 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 52% smaller than the state mean of about 381.

Gen George Patton Elem School is a school of Gen George Patton SD 133, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Gen George Patton Elem School logs that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Gen George Patton Elem School has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Gen George Patton Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 86% of students at Gen George Patton Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Gen George Patton Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 21.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 14.1%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Cook County) logs that median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Gen George Patton Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Washington Elem School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Gen George Patton Elem School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 21.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 31%: 267 students in 2018 compared to 184 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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