PATTERSON EL

PATTERSON EL is an elementary-level community of expansive scale in CONROE, Texas, part of CONROE ISD, enrolling 1,024 students in grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 97% larger than the state mean of about 519.

Within CONROE ISD, which oversees 66 schools and 72,914 students, PATTERSON EL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PATTERSON EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 59% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 23% White, 12% Black, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 71% of students at PATTERSON EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Montgomery County (around 48%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, PATTERSON EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.2%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Montgomery County) shows that median household income runs about $97,701, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PATTERSON EL is one of 160 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 134,595 students).

BOZMAN INT is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PATTERSON EL comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.8%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 28%: 802 students in 2018 compared to 1,024 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 38% to 23% across the same window.

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