Early Learning Center

Early Learning Center is a small elementary school that serves part of Des Plaines, Illinois. The school enrolls 290 students in pre-K. On average, elementary schools in Illinois enroll around 381, and this school is 24% below that mark.

Early Learning Center reports to East Maine SD 63, which has 7 schools and 3,706 students.

The student body at Early Learning Center has no majority group. Asian students lead at 42%. The remaining shares are 27% White, 19% Hispanic, 6% Black, and 4% multiracial. Cook County as a whole is about 8% Asian, so the school's share is higher. A diversity index of 71% means there is a 71% chance two randomly chosen students at Early Learning Center are from different groups.

The school has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 18.1 students per teacher. Statewide, elementary schools in Illinois average 13.9:1.

In Cook County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $83,498 a year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Cook County number 1,406, with about 697,934 students.

Apollo Elementary School sits about 0.1 miles from Early Learning Center. Early Learning Center has at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Federal records list enrollment at Early Learning Center as 198 in 2020-21 and 290 in 2024-25. A change that size can reflect a shift in the grades the school serves as well as a change in students.

Early Learning Center has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.