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Public school

Bulldog Early Learning Academy

Harrisburg, Illinois

NCES ID
171827006856
District
Harrisburg CUSD 3
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Bulldog Early Learning Academy is a public school in Harrisburg, Illinois, run by Harrisburg CUSD 3. It enrols 113 students — the 86178th largest of 4,435 public schools in Illinois.

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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

113students

86178th nationally, tied with 82

Teachers

9.0FTE

84650th nationally, tied with 1,296

Students per teacher

12.6students

25191st nationally, tied with 811

Free or reduced-price lunch

46.9%percent

53678th nationally, tied with 98

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.

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Within Harrisburg CUSD 3

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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Harrisburg High School544 students
  2. 2West Side Primary School424 students
  3. 3East Side Intermediate School359 students
  4. 4Harrisburg Middle School331 students
  5. 5Bulldog Early Learning Academy113 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Illinois median across 4,435 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−72.0%
  • Teachers−65.4%
  • Students per teacher−8.0%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−12.2%
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Where this sits

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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.