Public school / Primary
Early Childhood Center
Circle Pines, Minnesota
- NCES ID
- 270810000009
- School type
- Special education
- Title I
- Not designated
Early Childhood Center is a public primary school in Circle Pines, Minnesota, run by Centennial Public School District. It enrols 128 students — the 84819th largest of 2,771 public schools in Minnesota.
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
128
Teachers
13.0
Students per teacher
9.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
34.4%
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 Centennial Public School District
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.
- 1Centennial High School1,982 students
- 2Centennial Middle1,529 students
- 3Blue Heron Elementary761 students
- 4Rice Lake Elementary666 students
- 5Centerville Elementary575 students
- 6Centennial Elementary516 students
- 7Golden Lake Elementary416 students
- 8Early Childhood Center128 students
- Enrollment−57.5%
- Teachers−38.1%
- Students per teacher−32.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−29.7%
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