Lydia Patterson Institute is a Methodist Christian college-preparatory school located in El Paso, Texas, United States.

Founded in 1913 it offers programs for Spanish-speaking children, primarily from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua to attend high school in the United States and attend a Methodist graduate university.

[2] At the beginning of the 20th century in El Paso, there were very few educational opportunities for poor Hispanic boys.

Since the State of Texas did not provide public education of any kind for non-English speaking students, most Hispanic children in the Second Ward were not receiving any formal education.

Upon her death in 1909, her husband Millard Patterson, a local attorney, decided to memorialize her by establishing the school that she had envisioned, and in 1913, construction began on the Lydia Patterson Institute.