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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school

Zachary Early Learning Center

Zachary, Louisiana

NCES ID
220003902299
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Zachary Early Learning Center is a public school in Zachary, Louisiana, run by Zachary Community School District. It enrols 202 students — the 77765th largest of 1,374 public schools in Louisiana.

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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

202students

77765th nationally, tied with 118

Teachers

12.0FTE

80415th nationally, tied with 1,412

Students per teacher

16.8students

62972nd nationally, tied with 723

Free or reduced-price lunch

61.4%percent

39209th nationally, tied with 104

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 Zachary Community 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Zachary High School1,765 students
  2. 2Northwestern Middle School912 students
  3. 3Copper Mill Elementary/Middle School889 students
  4. 4Rollins Place Elementary847 students
  5. 5Zachary Elementary School821 students
  6. 6Northwestern Elementary School417 students
  7. 7Zachary Early Learning Center202 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Louisiana median across 1,374 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−58.7%
  • Teachers−55.6%
  • Students per teacher−4.5%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−8.4%
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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.