Public school
North Star Early Childhood Education Center
Stafford, Virginia
- NCES ID
- 510366003064
- District
- Stafford County Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
North Star Early Childhood Education Center is a public school in Stafford, Virginia, run by Stafford County Public Schools. It enrols 265 students — the 70334th largest of 2,163 public schools in Virginia.
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
265
Teachers
26.0
Students per teacher
10.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
84.5%
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 Stafford County Public Schools
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.
- 1Mountain View High2,203 students
- 2Brooke Point High2,150 students
- 3Stafford Senior High2,117 students
- 4Colonial Forge High1,996 students
- 5North Stafford High1,925 students
- 6Rodney E. Thompson Middle1,015 students
- 7H.H. Poole Middle983 students
- 8Shirley C. Heim Middle980 students
- Enrollment−54.2%
- Teachers−33.3%
- Students per teacher−27.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+27.7%
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