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Public school

Southwest Early Childhood Ctr

Jefferson City, Missouri

NCES ID
291619003121
District
Jefferson City
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Southwest Early Childhood Ctr is a public school in Jefferson City, Missouri, run by Jefferson City. It enrols 255 students — the 71653rd largest of 2,483 public schools in Missouri.

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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

255students

71653rd nationally, tied with 127

Teachers

26.0FTE

50791st nationally, tied with 2,332

Students per teacher

9.8students

8359th nationally, tied with 396

Free or reduced-price lunch

74.1%percent

27174th nationally, tied with 87

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 Jefferson City

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. 1Capital City High School1,404 students
  2. 2Jefferson City High1,296 students
  3. 3Lewis and Clark Middle1,005 students
  4. 4Thomas Jefferson Middle957 students
  5. 5Pioneer Trail Elementary477 students
  6. 6Clarence Lawson Elem.419 students
  7. 7North Elem.395 students
  8. 8Belair Elem.377 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Missouri median across 2,483 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−24.3%
  • Teachers+8.3%
  • Students per teacher−24.0%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+49.4%
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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.