Crete-Monee Early Childhood Cntr

Crete-Monee Early Childhood Cntr is an elementary-level community of low-enrollment scale in Crete, Illinois, part of Crete Monee CUSD 201U, instructing 256 students in grade pre-K. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Crete-Monee Early Childhood Cntr sits 33% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Crete Monee CUSD 201U, which oversees 8 schools and 4,562 students, Crete-Monee Early Childhood Cntr is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Crete-Monee Early Childhood Cntr records that 46% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 32% Hispanic, 16% White, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Will County indicate the typical household earns roughly $109,984 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Crete-Monee Early Childhood Cntr is one of 209 public schools in Will County (combined enrollment of about 113,008 students).

Crete-Monee High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Crete-Monee Early Childhood Cntr has climbed 53%, going from 167 students in 2018 to 256 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 11% to 32% over that span.

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