Patterson John M Sch

Patterson John M Sch is one of the moderately sized elementary-level communitys in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Philadelphia City SD, with 391 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4.

Patterson John M Sch is one of 220 schools operated by Philadelphia City SD, a district that hosts 116,230 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Patterson John M Sch shows that 81% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 8% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Philadelphia County as a whole is about 39% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 102% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Patterson John M Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.9%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Philadelphia County) logs that median household earnings sit near $61,953, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Patterson John M Sch is one of 309 public schools in Philadelphia County (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students).

Nearest neighbor: Southwest Leadership Academy CS, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Patterson John M Sch. On composite proficiency, Patterson John M Sch comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 18.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Patterson John M Sch's enrollment has contracted 35% since 2018, when it stood at 598 (now 391). Hispanic enrollment moved from 2% to 8% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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