Vern Patrick Elementary School

As a medium-sized elementary school in Redmond, Oregon, Vern Patrick Elementary School hosts 333 students from grades K through 5, run under Redmond SD 2J.

Within Redmond SD 2J, which oversees 13 schools and 6,889 students, Vern Patrick Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Vern Patrick Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 72%; the rest looks like 22% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Deschutes County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Vern Patrick Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.2%, the actual is 38.8%, a residual of +5.6 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Deschutes County put median household income runs about $92,758, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Deschutes County's 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,823 students), Vern Patrick Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Redmond High School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Vern Patrick Elementary School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 32.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Looking at the recent track record. Vern Patrick Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 380 (now 333). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged down from 28% to 22%. Class-load math has fell: from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 in 2025.

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