Public school / Primary
Paul L Patterson Elementary School
Hillsboro, Oregon
- NCES ID
- 410002301500
- District
- Hillsboro SD 1j
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Paul L Patterson Elementary School is a public primary school in Hillsboro, Oregon, run by Hillsboro SD 1j. It enrols 404 students — the 50289th largest of 1,300 public schools in Oregon.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
404
Teachers
19.0
Students per teacher
21.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
29.5%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Hillsboro SD 1j
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Century High School1,551 students
- 2Glencoe High School1,500 students
- 3Liberty High School1,454 students
- 4Hillsboro High School1,359 students
- 5Evergreen Jr High School742 students
- 6R A Brown Middle School722 students
- 7South Meadows Middle School709 students
- 8J W Poynter Middle School654 students
- Enrollment+11.1%
- Teachers−9.5%
- Students per teacher+21.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−54.2%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory