Patterson Intermediate Learning Center

Patterson Intermediate Learning Center is an elementary school of small scale in TECUMSEH, Michigan, one of the schools within Tecumseh Public Schools, enrolling 154 students in grades 3 through 4. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Patterson Intermediate Learning Center sits 58% below that benchmark.

Within Tecumseh Public Schools, which oversees 7 schools and 2,709 students, Patterson Intermediate Learning Center is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Patterson Intermediate Learning Center records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). Beyond that, the school logs 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Lenawee County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Patterson Intermediate Learning Center tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Lenawee County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $70,518 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Lenawee County's 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,256 students), Patterson Intermediate Learning Center is one campus in the mix.

Tecumseh Virtual Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Patterson Intermediate Learning Center.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 6-year window. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at Patterson Intermediate Learning Center has decreased 37%, going from 244 students in 2018 to 154 in 2024. White enrollment moved from 91% to 86% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 24.0:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2024.

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