PATTON EL

PATTON EL is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in AUSTIN, Texas, part of AUSTIN ISD, with 737 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 42% bigger than the state mean of about 519.

AUSTIN ISD runs 123 schools in total, collectively educating 72,272 students. PATTON EL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, PATTON EL logs that 42% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 38% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 6% multiracial, 5% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the resource side, PATTON EL logs 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Travis County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, PATTON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.7%, the actual is 54.3%, a residual of -6.4 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Travis County put the typical household earns roughly $99,611 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PATTON EL is one of 333 public schools in Travis County (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students).

SMALL MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PATTON EL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 51.4%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PATTON EL has ticked down 25%, going from 984 students in 2018 to 737 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 27% to 38% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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