Public school
Early Learning Center
West Chicago, Illinois
- NCES ID
- 174155005865
- District
- West Chicago ESD 33
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Early Learning Center is a public school in West Chicago, Illinois, run by West Chicago ESD 33. It enrols 86 students — the 88544th largest of 4,435 public schools in Illinois.
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
86
Teachers
12.0
Students per teacher
7.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
53.5%
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 West Chicago ESD 33
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.
- 1Leman Middle School1,124 students
- 2Gary Elementary School443 students
- 3Wegner Elementary School365 students
- 4Currier Elementary School342 students
- 5Turner Elem School282 students
- 6Indian Knoll Elem School275 students
- 7Pioneer Elem School263 students
- 8Elc Winfield Primary Annex105 students
- Enrollment−78.7%
- Teachers−53.8%
- Students per teacher−47.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+0.2%
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